The Girl

Lunch as Love

~ Bon Steele ~ 1 Comment

 

I am a firm believer in food being a way to express love. Not in a reward-for-good-behavior that I have seen some parents use. More in an I-care-about-what-goes-into-your-body sort of way. This is part of the reason that I get up a little early to pack lunch for The Girl, every morning.
For example, today’s lunch:

mmmm, lunch!

 

 

 

 

 

 

It isn’t a terribly complicated lunch. I mean, there aren’t even any secret messages in it!  However, it is more or less healthy with the added bonus of being full of things she likes.
Sometimes OFTEN Things a Kid Likes ≠ Healthy.  I am lucky in that she digs vegetables (most of them) and fruits (all of them.)
There are people out there whose children will eat a set list of things – and only those things.  Apparently, this has been going since the beginning of time, as evidenced by this book from my own youth (see: dinosaurs, earth-walking.)

If your kid is one of those who only allows say, peanut butter, sliced American cheese and hotdogs to pass their lips – I am truly sorry. I know that watching your skinny noodle of a kid push away yet another plate of food is frustrating. There is are some very good resources out there to help you get nutrition into your bébé  nowadays.
YAY, internets!

Now, I wrote all this so you’d understand that when I went downstairs to get my 3rd cuppa of coffee1, you would understand the eyeroll I allowed myself when I saw The Girl had left her lunch on the counter. At first, I was thinking it was because she had simply forgotten. Until I looked up her school cafeteria’s offerings for the day.

Today's lunch is brought to you by the letters ICK and the numbers BLEAH.

 

 

 

 

That’s OK, though. I will be bringing her lunch to her. I may have…modified her lunch bag a bit, though. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Think she’ll notice?

😀

 

 

 

[1]– Don’t judge.

Later That Day

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This post is a touch late because I am up in DFW visiting family.

I will post something of more substance when I get home, later this evening. For now…it’s sing-a-long time.

I see a little silhouette-a of a man....

A Tiny Update and a Bit of a Poll

~ Bon Steele ~ 6 Comments
GM Supplies --> Coffee? Check. Dice? Check. Evil Laugh? Check. Nefarious Plans? Check.

Yesterday, I posted a smidgen of flavor text from an RPG module I had written. Would more of that module be something that you kids would continue to be interested in? Because, believe me, there is quite a bit of Retribution – NPC information (stats and backstory), game paths, outlines, the doom of man – the works. I will be more than happy to share it with you guys. While the setting is not mine – Talislanta belongs to Stephan Michael Sechi and P.D. Breeding Black – the information in the module *IS* mine.

Let a GM know. 🙂

In the meantime, I am also writing up a new campaign (same system) for a current group. They’re enjoying it and so am I.

The difficulty is that I am blending game two very different systems:  Talislanta 4th ed. and DnD 2nd ed., to be precise. (Some of my readers are going to look at that sentence and be extremely confused.) At any rate, the blending is…well, interesting. Essentially, I am running two games in one setting. I will continue to hammer on the mechanics of this over the weekend. Because otherwise, my brain might explode.

In other exciting GM news, I found a new-to-me site yesterday:  Gnome Stew.    Holy cow!  Not only is the name and graphic awesome, but check this! It’s an entire website dedicated to helping out game masters.  They have tools that make scaring PCs  game play efficient and fun. I found templates, blogs, product reviews of things I didn’t even know were out there. Did I mention awesome?

*does a shuffling GM-Dance of Joy*

On the home-front, I think The Girl has given me her cold. I am not best pleased about this but, eh. What can you do? Even when they are teens, your kid sometimes just needs to snuggle against Mom for comfort.