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As read on mymeanderings (a blog):

(Conversation in the kitchen while I made dinner)

Me: Jeff do you want me to write little notes to you and stick them in your lunch bag for school?

Jeff: YEAH!! I would love that!

Me: Really?! I thought you would not even read them, I am so sorry I would have been doing it all along but I thought it might embarrass you.

Jeff: It's okay Mom, I sit by _______ at lunch every day and when he is done reading his note from his Mom he gives them to me. It feels like I get my own note. And she is really good at writing notes, sometimes she sends him notes from his dog and she signs it with a paw print.

(that's SO my mom, and I loved it!!) :)

And more...it's tooooo sweet!

I will sometimes give Jeff some change to bring to school which is a big deal to him. For a quarter he can choose from milk or a bag of chips. This week Steve gave him a dollar. It was placed carefully in his Winnie-the-Pooh wallet, checked and re- checked.

Last night before going to bed he told Etienne that he was going to spend all his change the next day on three bags of chips one for Eti, one for Chloe, and one for himself.

Earlier today I got an email from his teacher who is a good friend of mine, in the subject line it read CHIPS?

Here is what it said:

Jeff ordered 3 bags of chips today. he said something about a party with his
brother and sister. I was quite confused and I thought they were coming for
lunch or something, but he said they weren't. I asked if you knew he was
ordering 3 chips and he said yes. So I guess you are having a chip
party at home?! He cracks me up. He was very excited about this. :)

have a good day!
Rachael

When I called and asked her if I could post the email she laughed and said "I had to email you because usually kids wait half an hour before placing their lunch order and he came in all determined and without taking his backpack off said 'Mrs. _____ I have to order three bags of chips!' And I was thinking 'This does not even sound like a normal situation'!..."

All day today Etienne was saying "I am so filled with excited joy!!! I can't wait until Jeff gets home to have our chip party!"

I do feed my kids

I think they were this excited because they could sense Jeff was trying to do something special for them. The day before he had bought them a bag of Sun Chips, he said "After I bought the chips I was looking and looking at the bag and trying not to think about them, they looked so good. I ended up tearing them open and I ate a few but then I put them away". When he came home he got out two bowls and counted the chips one by one to make it fair.

So you can imagine the delight today when he came home with a bag for each!