The final day of my kids’ long weekend was bookended with medical appointments, so there wasn’t much time for fun. After the first appointment, the kids and I walked around the trails and enjoyed the playground in Long’s Park. I needed to grab seedless grapes and Lestoil (Thanks, Linda!). The kids were hungry, so we decided to pick up lunch.
Isabelle decided she wanted a turkey sandwich. “You could go with Ari,” Isabelle told me. (He wanted chicken tenders.)
I walked to the next station to order Ari’s chicken tenders. I glanced back at Isabelle, who was standing at the sandwich shop. “Don’t look at me,” she said.
That’s when I got a hint there might be an issue, but I stayed with Ari. A few minutes later, Isabelle glided toward us with a large brown sandwich sleeve.
“What is that?” I asked Isabelle.
“My sandwich,” she said, nonplussed.
“It’s huge! Tell me you weren’t planning to eat that whole thing.”
“I think I will,” she said.
“You’re not a 300-lb. linebacker. You’re a 12-year-old girl!”
“So?”
“So? Your father sometimes buys turkey sandwiches like this. He eats it over two days. TWO DAYS! You’re not eating all of that for lunch.”
Isabelle shrugged.
“You’ll eat half today and take the other half to school tomorrow.
Isabelle ate half of the sandwich for lunch. Once she finished, she declared, “Maybe I’m a little bit full.”
Well, I could’ve predicted that!
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Oh Isabelle! Still, from an outsider’s perspective, this is a pretty harmless (and funny) way to assert her independence – and a day off of lunch making. I love that there were leftovers of the leftovers.
LEFTOVERS OF THE LEFTOVERS would’ve been a better title!
And, yes, I’ll take this over harmful sneaky acts of rebellion.
Her eyes were bigger than her stomach! That’s a win in my book…packing lunches isn’t my favorite. I love that your kids do their own!
Start having the girls practice this summer any time you go for a picnic or to the beach. That’ll get them in the groove for the fall.
I’ve been there…thinking I can eat waaaay more than I can! Good call on saving it for lunch tomorrow.
It made her lunch packing EASY!
A rather large sandwich! Was it mostly bread? Was it filled only with turkey? I do not like sandwiches with so much bread. I can understand why Isabelle felt stuffed!
It was a LOT of bread since it was on a thick hero roll.
Haha my 8 year old son would do this! He would totally think he could eat it all. I’m glad she decided to eat it over 2 days.
She packed the final part of it in for her lunch tomorrow. I was like, “Are you sure?” (Since I worry about how old it will be by tomorrow.) She said she was so… good luck?!