30--no make that 27--lunches to go

I have taken to counting down the school year not in days or weeks but in lunches.

"Only thirty more lunches to pack," I told my daughter at breakfast today.

That's:
15 bagels (5 with cream cheese and 10 with butter)
4 cartons of juice boxes
2 giant boxes of Goldfish crackers, rainbow
2 quarts of strawberries, cut
4 boxes of Special K bars
10 Odwalla bars

"Won't you make lunch for us over the summer," Lilly asked, doe-eyed, at the bus stop.

"Nope," I said. They don't call it summer vacation for nuthin'.