‘I don’t like sandwiches anymore,’ Big Sis informed me the other evening.
Which was a complete pain, since it was 7.30pm and I had no lunchbox backup. I needed the salvage this situation, fast. I dug out some cookie cutters, and used them to cut through her bog-standard ham sandwich.
‘This is not a sandwich,’ I told my fussy eater, ‘it’s a ‘Manwich’ and some ‘Loaf Hearts’.’
PS: she polished them off… RESULT!
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I’m Jacqui – a 40+ freelance journalist & lifestyle blogger.
I’ve been a magazine features writer for over 20 years, and in 2009 became one of the UK’s original ‘Mummy Bloggers’.
I’m proud mum to two funny & spirited girls; born summer 2008 and autumn 2010, and we all live just outside London with OH and our youngest baby – a miniature dachshund, named Frankie.
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