Irrational
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:42 PM
We can drink some milk around here. For the longest time, I thought that was a good thing.
Then last week, the boys managed to gulp their way through an entire week’s supply of milk in four days. There was no “pushing through,” no chance of somehow making it without milk until my next trip to the grocers. This was undeniably, indisputably, absolutely hoggish. This was par for the course, and then just a bit more than that.
I started taking note and realized my boys drink milk like it is water, as if it flows freely from our taps. They imbibe without the knowledge that milk costs me a sizable percentage of my weekly grocery bill.
“Something has to be done about this,” I declared after our recent dairy overload. “You need to drink more water!”
My oldest son had an idea.
“Why don’t you buy us each our own gallon of milk,” he suggested, “and we have to ration it on our own.”
Brilliant!
So today I hit the grocery store and still bought a TON of milk, but ear-marked four gallons for the big boys. We put initials on each jug and placed them in the fridge. Already, four hours in, one boy is down to a half-gallon.
“I’m not going to drink any milk tomorrow,” he assured me, “because I used up so much today.”
Who knows how this will work, but at the very least my boys are getting a feel for just how fast they drink milk. Hopefully this will have a positive impact on my food budget and at the very least encourage them to drink some water here and there when the jug runs low.
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