What to do when packing the dreaded school lunch threatens to pull apart your marriage? Draw up a contract.
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Letter of Agreement
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This provided me an early morning giggle. Thank you. What do your two usually eat for lunch?
Love it! Am printing right this second…
Inspired! Tabitha is claiming to be very responsible ito healthy food choices, and so is allowed school lunches most days, but Jake, now that’s another matter. I’ll need to print this out too!
As a second year law student and avid food blog follower/foodie, I already loved your blog. This sent it over the top. I was rolling on the floor. My partner and I already have a running joke about what’s in “The Contract.” I sent this to him as evidence that I am not the only one. Keep writing!
you two are hilarious! and so so sweet!
This is the best “love letter” I’ve read in a long time. If you have this much fun negotiating lunch, I’ll bet your home is full of love and laughter!
I am absolutey dying right now!! I can’t remember the last time I laughed this hard. Yet I feel a bit of confusion as well, wondering how I got old enough to laugh about lunch/snack packing? You are the voice of many, many moms and dads. Thank you!
Brilliant! I will file this away – the lunchbox years are fast approaching.
I love this! My husband just plays dumb when I ask him to make a lunch to be taken to school. He looks blankly at me and says, “Awhahht? Hm? Oh. Hm, don’t know how?” That being said, our son just bought his first cafeteria meal today – somehow the Pizza Fridays of our youth is now Pizza Anyday for the San Francisco kids.
Oh, this is good. Good luck to the hubs.
Dying. That was so funny. My hubs and I are both lawyers. And yet I had not considered such an agreement. ; )
laughed so hard…
I am also a second year law student (evening, with a full time legal secretary job during the day) and often read your blog in class while eating cliff bars or assorted packaged rubber, pretending that it’s a tomato sandwich or something. The cats that sit next to me always drool over my shoulder. As a legal geek, this post in particular is much appreciated. Thanks for the day dreams.
I *would* be laughing, if I weren’t seething with resentment that I am the one on lunch duty ALL. THE DAMN. TIME. Add to that a supremely busy husband who has decided that he is going to MAKE all the bread in the house, and who then decides to make BAGUETTES instead of FRICKING BREAD THAT I CAN USE TO MAKE SANDWICHES, the week before a long weekend when he won’t be around to make MORE bread that CAN BE USED IN SANDWICHES, and – well, it’s a sticky situation.
“…and upon threat of further humiliation, you will also provide guidance and lunch menus to other fathers who have now been subjugated into every-other-night lunch-making.”
Jenny, this is brilliant! And so very funny.
perfect…perfect…perfect….I laughed my head off!
DYING! Too funny!
Love Hus’ line about “…do we really want to be the couple giving free lunch duty and foot massage coupons to each other?” I was almost off my chair laughing!
your husband is very sweet and funny. you, clearly, are living the good life. good for you. i love your blog!
Oh my geesh! hee hee hee! Loved everything about this and my husband will too….he’s numero uno in the lunch making department these days AND he’s a lawyer. Thanks for making me laugh tonight! I’m linking back to this on my blog soon.
Love this. I’m a lawyer and would love to get my husband to execute such an agreement, but I know he’d just shake his head in disgust and tell me to save my lawyer tactics for my clients. Oh well. I have one in 2nd grade, one in kindergarten, and one in diapers. So many peanut butter sandwiches yet in my future . . . .
this is excellent. you should make it downloadable.
I love love love that you guys were featured on the NY Times! This is one of my favorite blogs. I’m glad it’s getting recognition.
Like everybody else, my husband and I found this very clever and entertaining. I was happy to see it on the Motherlode blog as well.
“Hereunder? Who are you?” My fave!
this was awesome. Never too late to go to law school…or so I’ve heard 🙂 HKphooey&Trish