smartypants & snack attack

january 18, 2012

another day= another morning at school.

wednesday was parent education at m's school.

i usually take a lot of notes

(especially today, since m's amazing therapist sharon was co-leading the session. 

she is so, so experienced and fantastic.)

love it- 

always so many tidbits to take home & use with both of my girls, 

even though ruby doesn't have hearing loss.

i love the emphasis on cognition for language & development.

as another mom said yesterday,

"i never would've ended up here if my daughter didn't have hearing loss. 

but i feel like this stuff is important for any parent with kids, right?

shouldn't all parents be learning this?"

yup- sometimes i am so grateful for how hearing loss has made me a better parent with more tools.

one of those things i never would have guessed i'd be saying!

notice ruby is always in the mix. 

that's her with the saggy bottom in the middle of parent ed.

in the old days, or i should say, pre-ruby on the move days, parent ed was peaceful. 

take notes, listen, comment, soak up wisdom.

now it is a little more like this:

take notes while rummaging through bag for ruby's snacks, climbing over other people's children to race after ruby when she escapes down the hallway every three minutes, grab the snacks ruby just stole from another child to give her her own food, comment, pull ruby's sippy cup out of another child's hands, find some new toys for ruby to play with, sip some coffee, scribble more notes, race back down the hallway...and so on for about an hour.

after school we head back to oakland

and

my girls eat lunch in the car.

which brings me to this question:

i am rocking kid lunches/snacks 5 days a week, as most of you probably are too.

any fun (but simple) food ideas i could use/steal from you?

(keep in mind that three of the days my kids are eating in the car

& that m rejects any meat/poultry situation)

i feel like we rock the same combinations week after week.

consider this your suggestion box & click on the comment link to give me some new ideas.