My lunch table soon came to expect these notes. The one common thread was that the notes always came on a scrap of paper torn from the kitchen notepad, sometimes with a grocery list on the reverse side. There were two weeks he got by on the Ten Commandments, but by day eight he struggled to remember what was left because he’d listed them out of order. Erin Robinson Erin Robinsonĭad also coached in my fast pitch softball league, so occasionally ‘Coach Dad’ would provide softball strategies and tips in the notes. Sometimes these notes were quotes sometimes they were safe driving tips. Erin Robinsonĭuring my senior year, Dad started writing notes and sticking them in my ‘lunch bag,’ typically a plastic bag from the grocery store. Dad also took over responsibility of packing my lunch for school. We were way ahead of the ‘meal prep’ trend of recent years.
A lot of our time together revolved around food writing a menu for the week, going shopping, cooking what we could ahead of time.
We missed her a lot, but Dad and I grew close and functioned as a great team, establishing weekly routines to maintain order and normalcy in her absence. “As part of her work in disaster relief for the American Red Cross, my mom traveled a lot during my high school years and left me home with my dad.
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