Whoa time! Seriously slow down. I know every mother says this over
and over but my goodness my little girl cannot really be in first grade.
I dropped her off to school on the first day with a bit of a heavy
heart. She was so excited she was literally bouncing off the walls in
our house. That made it a little easier for me. My sister and I
discussed this. It's not that we're not excited for our children to grow
up and have new experiences and learn and mature--just that it is hard
to imagine they are really old enough to do things like eat school
lunch. It makes me want to snuggle Andrew and enjoy that his knuckles
and elbows are still dimples and that Kate still says "basketti" for
"spaghetti" because soon she will be able to pronounce it correctly, and
I'll miss "basketti." Well, enough rambling, I'll get to what I wanted
to document in this post and that is Marin's school lunch quotes. She
LOVES school lunch. It is hilarious! She is totally her dad's daughter
(he was also a lover of school lunch) and she loves P.E., recess, and
school lunch the most (although my--or I should say my mom's--genes may
have surfaced somewhere because she really likes Art too). She has been
to three days of school so far and when I pick her up and ask her about
her day, the FIRST comment she makes has been about school lunch.
Day
1: "Mom, I loved school lunch so much! There was even cheese to put on
my hamburger!"
Day 2: "Mom, the nachos were so yummy!" -- a few minutes
later -- "Mmm, mom, I can still smell those nachos." (Side note: Marin
and Mitch have decided that on nacho days Mitch will come eat school
lunch with her)
Day 3: "Mom, my corn dog was the best one I've ever tasted! Also the chocolate chip cookie was the best one I've ever tasted!"
Today is sliced ham or something so I sent a lunch with her.
We'll see if she is like my nephew and starts crying when his mom sent
him a lunch from home because he wanted school lunch so much. I'm so
grateful she loves school so much. She has a wonderful teacher this year
(with red hair just like her!), and I'm excited for her to learn and grow in school. I love my little red-head so much!
