This week is homecoming week at my kids’ school.  On Tacky Day my daughter wore a hoodie inside out and backward, Christmas jewelry, mismatched flip-flops with her father’s hunting socks and we frizzed out her hair.  She was truly tacky.   Here’s where the resourceful part kicks in.

Typically the kids’ get a 30-minute break when we get home from school before I make them start homework.  Son raids the cabinets like he’s never seen food and daughter putters around for a little snack.  She’d curled up in the recliner with a drink and every once in a while I’d hear her munching on something, but I couldn’t see what she was eating or where it was coming from.  This was intriguing.

Then I caught her.

She’d dumped chocolate covered peanuts into the inside-out on-backward hoodie conveniently positioned on her chest and was using it as a food pouch.   I cracked up and she looked at me and smiled.  “Betcha wish you had one of these, don’tcha. Momma?”

“Er…no.”

But it was pretty damned resourceful, wasn’t it?