Story. Peanut butter and honey sandwich.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.  ~Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

I’m a bad Mami.  There…I’ve said it.  I feel terrible – I really do.  My 8 year old came home yesterday and said to me:

“Mami, you HAVE to give me money for lunch tomorrow.  They had my favorite lunch today and I couldn’t get it.  It was hamburgers…and they are WAY better than McDonald’s.  They said I had, like, negative money in there and so I couldn’t get it.  They gave me a cheese stick and a peanut butter and honey sandwich.  Mom…that’s like the 2^nd time I’ve had a peanut butter and honey sandwich this year!  I didn’t have one once in 1^st grade.  My friend Mark was crying the other day because he had to have a peanut butter and honey sandwich.  I felt like crying today but I didn’t.” 

The dreaded peanut butter and honey sandwich.  Apparently there is a stigma that comes with that lunch.  I hope he is not scarred for life over the experience…I slipped a $50 check in his backpack…no more peanut butter and honey sandwiches!

Story. Washer bite.

You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.  ~Franklin P. Jones

Yesterday I opened the door to my front loading washing machine and saw this.

I immediately called my 4 year old to come over.  I said to him “Honey, did you bite Mami’s washing machine?”.  “Hmmm….well….I would never be THAT hungry Mami.”  So I looked at him some more.  After a few seconds he says “Actually, I did bite it Mami.  I’m sorry.”  He could not tell me why he did it – if he was angry or not.  When I asked him if he ate the plastic or if he spit it into the garbage he said “Well, actually, I put it in the garbage can so the garbage man has it now.” <sigh>

He is my challenge…but I love him to pieces.