“So, when I was at Graham’s preschool meeting on Wednesday, she told us to send along a scrapbook when he starts. They’re going to fill it with his activities during the year.”
“Before we know it, we’ll be getting the big list of school supplies we need to buy. He’s growing up! Crazy.”
“I know. The list for preschool is pretty small. A scrapbook, a pair of inside shoes, and a change of clothes in case he gets dirty.”
“Do kids use lunch boxes anymore? I used to love mine. It was a Spiderman one. Did you have one?”
“Yep. Mork and Mindy.”
“Oh, man! You WERE a big nerd (said with love and a big smile). It totally shows our age too. Mork and Mindy?!?”
Yes, I was a nerd. I would like to think, however, that I wouldn’t have picked that out by myself in Kindergarten. I sure hope that’s the case.
Please tell me I was only a slight nerd. And tell me what kind of lunch box you had, if any. Or backpack. I’m curious.
I had a fabric lunch bag that stank and had stains on it. I. was. not. cool.
Sorry, I take the nerd-ness prize!
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Ok, when I was little, it was a Holly Hobbie one. So cute, right? And when I was in grade four it was an orange Fraggle Rock one.
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When I started school I had a Charlie Brown one with Snoopy and Woodstock. It was blue and came with a it’s own thermos that my mom put milk in. When I got older it changed to a brown bag, then left over plastic grocery bags, then finally a cloth bag that always seemed a little too small to fit my whole lunch in…
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I had Holly Hobbie too in Grade 1 and 2 then I “graduated” to a Smurf’s one.
Remember the Smurfs? Now they were COOL – NOT! Or was that an Ontario thing… we lived in Ottawa at the time?!
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Oh yeah, and Mork and Mindy were COOL – c’mon Robin Williams. He is one of the funniest men alive!
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Oh, I watched the Smurfs faithfully. I even had “The Smurf’s All-Star Show” on record. I can’t believe I just admitted that. And Fraggle Rock? I forgot about those guys!
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I had an Addams Family lunchbox for a while, and also a Holly Hobbie one, can’t remember which came first but I do remember that lunchbox smell!
The smurfs were great, you can buy them again here…have they come back to Canada too?
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I can’t remember but they were probably YOUR old ones. LOL!!!
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No lunch box fo me…my elementary school was just across the street so I came home to hot lunches made by my mama. Belgian waffles, grilled cheese, macaroni…no wonder I was a chubster!
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I think mine was Smurfs or Garfield (one was mine, one my sisters!)
Would have probably killed for a Cabbage Patch Kid one though=)
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I used to smuggle “Smurfin’ Beer” to school in my Smurf Lunchbox.
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I’d have to say muppets. But that didn’t last long — 4 kids means paper bags.
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I’m going to date all of you by saying that I don’t know half of these shows and the ones I have heard of, I haven’t watched. Except for Charlie Brown Christmas, and Muppets Christmas story.
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Jem & the Rockers (or whatever it was called). I think I had a Care Bear one at some point too.
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Garfield. It was sweet.
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I know I had a carebears one, it was one of those pink plastic ones that had the thermos in the top. But my parents banned hard lunch boxes when one day on the way home from school I saw a yellow punch-buggy and I hit my sister and said “yellow punch buggy no returns!” to which she replied with no words but with a backpack swung fiercly over her head and onto mine. It knocked me unconscious. Oh, they also banned the punch-buggy game.
Those cloth lunch bags weren’t nearly as cool, my sandwiches always got smooshed.
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Put me in the Fraggle Rock column. I also had the muppets at one point as well. Oh, where have the lunchboxes of yesterday gone?
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mine was a smurfs lunchbox. my brother’s was transformers.
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