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This morning Miss Thang made her lunch, but forgot it on the kitchen counter.  No fear, mom is here!  I revised it a little (she’d made a salami sandwich, apple, pudding, and 2 fruit snacks – I removed the pudding, a fruit snack and added fishy cracker, hehe), packed it into an insulated lunch bag, and then ran it to her school with her forgotten homework folder.

I walked into the office and set the items on the counter as I told the secretary who I was dropping them off for.  She had a strange look on her face, I thought maybe she was confused, so I explained, “She just called me from here”.  

The look now went from strange to bewildered, “You’re her mom?”

“Yes …”

“She looks just like you”

“They call her my mini-me”, seriously, I don’t have kids, I make clones.  By the way she was looking at me I had a feeling she wanted to ask how old I was, but she didn’t.  This same woman thought I was Miss Thang’s sister last year when I went to pick up her bike from the office.  The principal reassured her that I was her mom, I guess she just forgot.

Oh and she is loving her new class and teacher!  This year she was placed in the 4^th/5^th combo class.  I was also in a combo class in 4^th grade.  Thank goodness she inherited mommy’s brain instead of her bio father’s.