Best Laid Plans of Mice and Mom

This Thursday the Four Moms are specifically discussing lunches for our husbands, and it's a link-up, so be sure to come back and join us, sharing a post about what you make for your hubby to eat at work (or if you don't do that, what you do instead and why).

I have been letting my horrific combination of sloth and perfectionist tendencies interfere with my lunch making.  But a couple weeks ago I determined to be better about this.  The EC read The Edison Trait and reminded me of a phrase she read there- "Sloppy success is better than perfect failure."  Oooh, I love that.  I NEED that. In fact, more about that in my Four Moms post.

I decided I needed some convenience foods to get me jump-started back into regular lunch making so I am not stymied by fiddling with things like radish roses and carrots cut into the shape of flowers, hollowed out and filled with cheese (I am not making these things up).  Thursday I was at the monster Discount Grocery store with the HG last Thursday while my husband was (unbeknownst to any of us, including himself) in the basement of the Rattery nearly killing himself with Carbon Monoxide gas,  While shopping, I bought the HM 20 Nutri-grain bars in his favorite flavor for a special treat for him and an easy thing for me to add to his lunches. 

On our way home from the store, as you know, we were redirected to the hospital E.R. where my husband had been taken by ambulance when he collapsed from CO poisoning.  I don't want to bore you with logistics, but Pip was at work in town, so she was closest to the hospital and got there first.  When we got there, she left me the car she came in, and she went back to our house in the HG's car, and they and the Progeny at home unloaded the car and put away the groceries, so I never saw where anything got put

I've been making the HM's lunches, but I haven't been able to figure out where on earth the Nutrigrain bars got to, but since I am usually making his lunch after the Progeny are in bed, I kept forgetting to ask.

Tuesday night I remembered and asked the Progeny where they hid them, and it appears the Progeny have already eaten ALL 20 bars.  Since Thursday.And there are only four Progeny at home who can eat them,although one of the Progeny suggests that maybe they also gave some to Blynken and Nod.

Well.  Friday night one of the girls had brought home a package of cookies for the singing we had, and there are still some left so last night I took those cookies and gave them all to the Headmaster in his lunch because I am a grown up like that.  Also, I am eating low-carb and am tired of looking at those cookies in the pantry every single day,

Fortunately for the Progeny, I bought 20 Nutri-grain bars because they were only .10 each, so I am out only the 2.00.

Well, two dollars plus the cost of having to think up something else to replace this easy and convenient thing I had planned.

Well, two dollars, the cost of convenience carefully planned and then lost, and the lost time searching for something they must have scarfed down with 24 hours without asking me if they could have them (because we *never* buy stuff like this, so they ought to have known it had a purpose).

Well, two dollars, the convenience cost, my lost time searching, and the pain, suffering, and bitterness I am having over the sabotage of my carefully laid plans for something easy to help me be consistent over my husband's lunches (I could continue in this vein indefinitely but probably should have stopped three points back).

So I haven't decided if they will have to pitch in their shekels and replace the stolen cereal bars at store-bought cost, or if they will have to make some of his lunches without using any convenience food items for a week or so.

Maybe they should make bread they grind by hand between two rocks.

I don't sound bitter, do I?

Anyway, don't miss Thursday's link-up!  I'll tell what brave punishments I have devised, and share some lunch making tips learned from new found motto that sloppy success is better than perfect failure.