Brown Bread, Fruit Snacks and becoming my Mother

(This picture has absolutely nothing to do with this post)

When I was in Elementary school we lived like a block from the school so I RARELY got to stay at school for lunch. There was the odd time when my Mom would send us with a lunch because she could not be home and then the dreaming would begin. I Dreamed of fruit snacks and white wonder bread, of oreo's and teddy grahams, I would even fantasize of those little packets of 3 crackers with the little red stick and the fake cheese that you would spread on each one. I had dreams of all things processed as a child (yes you can laugh...I am weird, I remember going to my friend Missy's house 2 doors down and thinking that her pantry was amazing, filled with all things packaged. Oh how I envied her) Our lunches usually consisted of homemade brown bread sandwiches with carrot or celery sticks I dunno something fun like raisins thrown in there if we were lucky. Needless to say I don't think that any other kids were eying my lunch and wanting to trade anything. I hardly ever stayed for lunch so it was not a daily occurrence but when we did get to stay I would beg my mom for fruit snacks and white bread.
Funny but true story- We begged my Mom so much for a "cool" lunch that one day she brought Emily and I a lunch to school and not only did she give us fruit snacks she gave us each a whole box. Just in case your wondering (and I know that you are) it is equally embarrassing to have en entire box of fruit snacks smashed into your lunch box as it is to have no fruit snacks. But thanks Mom I know you were just trying to make us happy!
So the years went by and I had no permanent scars to speak of from my lack of white bread in my childhood and actually in high school my house was the house everyone wanted to come to for lunch cause Claudia always had a delish homemade feast made for us at lunch time.
ANYWAYS
the point of my story is that today I was a helper in Luke's pre-school class and I had to laugh at myself when it came time for the little kids to pull out their lunch. Out of 11 kids there were packs of fruit snacks, bags of chips, little packs of crackers with the red stick and fake cheese, lunchables and even straight up candy. Then there was LUKE'S LUNCH...

Wait For It

-Brown bread sandwich
-carrot sticks
-wheat thins
-cheese (and not cool cheese strings, straight up sliced pieces of cheese in a baggie)
-Apple juice
and you guessed it...a mini box of raisins

I seriously found myself scoping out other kids lunches and feeling bad for poor little Luke, I the Mother that packed that healthy wonder. It just does not make sense to me to give them treats in their lunch because we know that they will clearly eat the treat first.
SO I have decided that I have turned into my Mother And that I love it! I also know that I would kill for a loaf of her homemade whole wheat bread at any given moment, Even though it was the shame of my childhood lunch box. And even though my kids will probably some day write a blog post saying how un-cool their mom was, I love that I am inflicting the curse of the non-cool lunch on my kids.
BUUUUUT that being said next week I may just add a bag of fruit snacks to the little guy's lunch...but not the whole box!

Celebrate

Today I am Celebrating
As much as I love my husband, and my life, I am ESCAPING. Running away if you will, I'm going to

LONDON

Well London Ontario that is (what it's still exciting) And I am going to see some of my favorite people.

Like Him... Jacob
Luke has been talking about going to see "My cousin Jacob" for days, he's so excited




The little beauty
Clair
And the main event...
ANGELA!!!!!

This is the most recent pic I have of her cause we have not seen her in a year and a half...what the heck I know. We are so excited!!!!!!

And Chels and Hali we can't wait to see you either, we just couldn't find a picture...sorry

BBQ stain on my white t-shirt

Last weekend I went to a Tim McGraw concert with a couple of girlfriends. SERIOUSLY the most fun I have had in a long time.
Here are a few highlights of the night

1- I was on my feet the entire concert singing to all the songs (even the ones I didn't know the words to) Dancing, and screaming, you heard me, screaming. Judge me if you will but we had the best time being those girls that never shut up the entire time...sooo fun. And let's face it when does a mormon girl/mom of 2 really ever have the chance to dance??? We need to take them when we can right?

2-When I say "yah I love Tim McGraw" what I really mean is I loved him for like 2 years in High School and I still think his big hit is "It's your love". So basically I knew about half of the songs (the ones from 10 years ago" but whatever I still loved it.


3- when you go somewhere like a concert you really have no proof that you were actually there cause the picture is just a super close up of your faces cause you took it yourself. And sadly Tim didn't come up to the rafters (where our seats were) to get a personal picture with us. But this is at the concert I swear.

4- You never are quite sure who you are going to get stuck sitting by. Jessi the lucky girl sat by this man. He actually turned out to be my favorite person ever cause as soon as it was a song he knew he was on his feet dancing and singing with more enthusiasm than we were...love it


5- When we got there a band was singing and Aubrey asked this guy who they were and he looked ay her with disgust "uh Lady Antebellum" ok note to self learn who the bands are that you are going to see...I did know 1 of their songs.


(At 5 guys before the show getting burgers...yum)


6- And last but not least I realized that I am still 17 at heart. When Tim sang "something like that" aka BBQ stain on my white T-shirt I almost lost my voice from singing so loud. I was instantly back in the summer before grade 12 and we were cruising in my white truck listening to that song (much to lindsay's dismay) And I still loved it. It's fun to realize that yah I'm a mom and yah I'm married and all mature and stuff but sometimes you just need a fun night out with the girls right?
And it's ok to always be 17 at heart!