Background: For the most part my kids bring a packed lunch every single day to school. I usually make them lunch. My oldest girl helps out a lot, because she has to leave early and I don’t always make it to the kitchen quick enough for her. My middle girl, she’d wait forever before she started making her own lunch. This morning we have snow:

On snowy days it’s usually my job to shovel all the walks (and now that the ice rink is back there I must shovel that too, I kind of like shoveling but well, sometimes it’s a bit of a hassle). So I walked the dog (isn’t that a kid job?) and then I shoveled the back walk and took out the garbage. When I came back in it was almost time to leave for school and the kids were playing with the dog. I went to check the weather on my computer. The next thing I hear is my sweet 9 1/2 year old yelling to me that I need to make her lunch because it’s time to go.

I asked her if she had attempted to help me out at all while I was shoveling and walking the dog? Well, of course not. Why, why doesn’t she just pop some bread in the toaster and get it going? She even tried to get her brother to go down to the basement fridge to get her a drink and he was buying lunch at school today!

UGH, kids what’s up with them?