Give-Away Day

Give-away days are tough. The kids get very excited about getting something. You can only get something if you buy lunch. That is the purpose of give-away days. To bring in more students to buy lunch which ups how many you serve. Today was "animal give-away" day. I had about 200 little, plastic/rubber dogs. Different kinds of dogs. I served 239 today so I didn't have enough. I added some other little items hoping to make it to the end of the day with enough "dogs". I did have enough. I even had a few left. It is very hard for the students to choose "a" dog when there are different ones. And, all the students want to come in and get one, even when they don't buy lunch. It makes me feel like the bad guy when I have to say "no, you can't have one since you didn't buy lunch". However, that is why we have give-aways. I am glad its over. I hope there are no more Giveaway days.

My son came to work today to do some video for me for my book and some other projects I am working on. I was hoping to get some video of the students "play acting" something out for me but I mentioned to one of the teachers about taking some video and she said she had students that may not have their pictures taken. So, I had to change my plan and I nixed the whole segment that included the kids. I didn't want any close-ups but I was afraid that it might cause problems. I do some fun PowerPoint's and I hope to do a video for our next Food Service Christmas Party, or for our end of the year Breakfast. I always have so many ideas about fun things to do but it is hard to follow through and get them done when you have to consider all the details.

I have to thank my staff today since I was distracted with all that going on. They are so wonderful. They just pick up any slack that might come up when I am involved in "one of my projects". Whenever I have something like that going on, I get all consumed in it. I guess they are used to it by now. I am involved in the planning and organizing of the Food Service Christmas Party, and sometimes other projects (retirements, etc) that come up. I also like to do the Lip sync that the school has once a year. The Lip sync's are really fun. You pick a song and sing along to it, without being heard (which is really good for me since I can't carry a tune). I love doing choreography and stuff. Such an adrenaline rush when you get on that stage in front of hundreds of people, the kids screaming, the loud music. How great is that!!

Well, another weekend is here! We have had a great three days in the new year in the life of a lunch lady.
All is well.