Packing lunches 101

Tayler has a field trip tomorrow, and I promised her she could take her own lunch. As my life usually is, I was swamped up to my eyeballs, trying to clean house, get homework organized and make sure it was all there and DONE, shove laundry through the cycles, and pack suitcases. Not to mention the doctor's visit with Cali (runny nose, cough, fever, diarrhea... swine flu symptoms but I was crossing my fingers for strep. Congratulations, she has strep. Yes and whew). Right after work tomorrow I get to drive the girls half way to Vernal to meet up with the ex for them to have a weekend with him (I'll have to give him kudos here, he very agreeably changed the weekend he wanted for this one so I could head kidless to the sand dunes), and Friday I'm leaving to the dunes. Needless to say I was feeling overwhelmed. "Hey Tay, why don't you go make your sandwich and I'll get the rest done after you go to bed." Which she did, but that wasn't good enough for her. She packed a string cheese and then brought in a carrot. "Mom, what do I do with this?" "It needs to be peeled and cut into sticks. You can peel it if you want, but I'll cut it." After that I lost track of her progress in the bustle of clothes to and from the laundry room, and to and from dressers and suitcases. After bags where all successfully packed, and kids were in bed I made my way back into the kitchen to check on Tay's lunch. Sandwich, check. String cheese, check. Carrots... Tay had peeled the carrot beautifully... and bagged the peelings in a Ziploc and put them in her sack, leaving the carrot on the counter. Being the "good" mom that I am, I simply cut the carrot into sticks and added them to the baggie with the peelings. I'm still laughing.