{"id":16441,"date":"2017-04-07T08:56:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16441"},"modified":"2017-10-23T19:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T00:37:52","slug":"programming-memories-in-my-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/07\/programming-memories-in-my-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming Memories In My Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this year, I’ve started putting strange things in my children’s lunches for school.<\/p>\n

I know, the customary thing to do to make a big deal of it on the Internet is to put a little love note or drawing into the lunch boxes and then to produce ready-for-viral listicles of images. But I’m not a mommy and I’m not artistic. So the lads get some strange foodstuffs indeed.<\/p>\n

It started when, as a lark, I put a tin of Fancy Feast cat food in their boxes.<\/p>\n

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Then, a couple weeks later, I thought about putting some brownie mix, unprepared, in the Pokemon and Sonic the Hedgehog comestible containment devices. I was at the store at the time, but I could not find inexpensive (sub-buck) brownie mix, so I picked up three boxes of Jiffy Yellow Cake mix. The next day, they each got one, and I baked the third so they could actually have cake when they got home. One of the lads, good boy, opened the cake mix and ate some of it at school.<\/p>\n

I considered giving each pack of microwave popcorn two weeks ago, but I demurred. Because I wasn’t sure that one of them would open it, and that would be a waste of my beautiful wife’s preferred snack of late.<\/p>\n

Today, I gave each an ice cream cone. No ice cream; just a cone.<\/p>\n

Someday, perhaps when I am gone, they will get to talking and say, “Do you remember when Dad put something<\/em> in our lunch?” And they’ll think of me.<\/p>\n

Or perhaps they’ll mention it to their therapists. Regardless, it’s building my immortality, one little bit of remembered silliness at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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