In an effort to try and emulate one of those picture-perfect Pinterest mums, I have started slipping little notes into my six-year-old’s lunchbox for school.
I know it’s born from pure guilt that I don’t prepare fun, cookie cutter-shaped sandwiches and cool little works of art out of fruit. In fact, I don’t even prepare her lunch, it’s (thankfully) prepared by the childminder before I get home from work each day. Maybe one day I’ll fashion a bird out of a napkin and sit it alongside a fluffy cloud-shape samba, but for the time-being, a little note from me to her makes me feel Pinterest-worthy and her (hopefully) feel loved when she reads it.
So, when I read about this Dad, Jim Rogel whose 20-year-old note to his daughter, now 31-year-old Katie Rogal, has has been taped to her fridge ever since, it really made me smile.
I may be plagued with working mum guilt and I’m certainly not the first parent to put cute notes in their child’s lunchbox, but I know it’s the little things that count. My daughter might not save my notes for 20 years, but I hope she takes something from them each day when I’m not around.
I’ll take that for the moment.
