People often ask me--those who have seen my kids eat, anyway--how much my grocery bill is. It's a rhetorical question because they guess it's high--the kids have healthy appetites AND we eat organic as often as possible.
An illustration: yesterday, we went through a loaf of bread. A whole loaf (100% wheat, at least). And that was before lunch. I was making jelly sandwiches for our trips to and from Chinese class. So they wanted a sandwich then (4 slices). I made one sandwich each for the ride down (4 slices) and two sandwiches each for the ride home (8 slices). That left 1 little slice and two heels.
And they ate all of it.
Going, going, gone.
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Yesterday, we were playing in the car. Parked in the driveway, so they could pretend to drive. DS turned to me and asked for money. So I asked him what he needed money for.
"To make the car go."
Huh?
"Like at the mall."
Ahhhh, those little rides by the playspace. You put two quarters in and the vehicles shakes and shimmies.
I get it now.
That's why he's been stuffing the spare change in my car air conditioning vents and CD player for months now.
It makes perfect sense.
And in a way he's right--you need money to make the car go, it's just a lot more than 2 quarters these days.
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