Every summer I try to come up with new and exciting adventures for all of my littles to go on. Be it a trip to a different park, getting donuts at the bakery, heading to the library, all fun trips. Sometimes our adventures are in our imagination, found in the daycare house and yard. It takes a lot of planning, and preparation to set these kinds of plans into action. When the weather is cooperative I love to try and have picnics 🙂
At this point in my career I had the benefit of having people who worked for me. The forecast was favorable for our first picnic of the summer. To make the picnic a sort of a celebration we had decided to have drive through, McDonald’s to be precise 🙂 You could feel the excitement upon the announcement to the children, it was almost electric! We decided to take them all outside and let them burn off some energy. Setting up the blankets, and getting the wipes ready to clean little faces and hands. Once everything was set up, I could run quickly and get the food.
Pulling up to the drive through with my list in hand, I don’t think the attendant knew what hit them 🙂
“I will have two cheese burger meals with no pickles or condiments, with fries. Three cheeseburger meals with apple slices. Two hamburger meals no onions or mustard, with french fries. Three chicken nugget meals with fries. Two chicken nugget meals with apple slices. The drinks for all meals are as follows, three white milks, three chocolate milks, four apple juices, two orange juices. Plus three full size double cheese burger meals all with ice tea please. Please put all the prizes for the kids meals in a separate bag.”
There was a long pause from the take out microphone, “Is this all one order?” “Yes”, I replied, “Can you read my order back to me, and if possible label the bags?”. I was pretty impressed that he had read the order back correctly and proceeded to go to the first window to pay. The person at the first window read out my total, and read back my order again with a surprised look on their face. Making my way to the next window to get my order I started to giggle. As the attendant handed me all of the happy meals and drink trays, he looks at me, smiles, and says “Are these for your own kids?”. Stifling my laughter, I replied, “Why yes they are”.
It was a picnic like no other! The kids had a blast eating their food, and being able to have more outdoor play time before quiet time. My staff and I enjoyed not having lots of dishes to wash, and just seeing the kids smile as they gobbled up their meals with no fuss. Sometimes the extra expense is worth the happiness from my littles