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Letter of Agreement

By September 7, 2010September 12th, 201253 Comments

53 Comments

  • Avatar Liz says:

    This provided me an early morning giggle. Thank you. What do your two usually eat for lunch?

  • Elizabeth says:

    Love it! Am printing right this secondโ€ฆ

  • Avatar Vanessa says:

    Inspired! Tabitha is claiming to be very responsible ito healthy food choices, and so is allowed school lunches most days, but Jake, now thatโ€™s another matter. Iโ€™ll need to print this out too!

  • Avatar Sarah says:

    As a second year law student and avid food blog follower/foodie, I already loved your blog. This sent it over the top. I was rolling on the floor. My partner and I already have a running joke about whatโ€™s in โ€œThe Contract.โ€ I sent this to him as evidence that I am not the only one. Keep writing!

  • mau says:

    you two are hilarious! and so so sweet!

  • Avatar Andy says:

    This is the best โ€œlove letterโ€ Iโ€™ve read in a long time. If you have this much fun negotiating lunch, Iโ€™ll bet your home is full of love and laughter!

  • Avatar Jessica says:

    I am absolutey dying right now!! I canโ€™t remember the last time I laughed this hard. Yet I feel a bit of confusion as well, wondering how I got old enough to laugh about lunch/snack packing? You are the voice of many, many moms and dads. Thank you!

  • Rebecca says:

    Brilliant! I will file this away โ€“ the lunchbox years are fast approaching.

  • Avatar Amanda says:

    I love this! My husband just plays dumb when I ask him to make a lunch to be taken to school. He looks blankly at me and says, โ€œAwhahht? Hm? Oh. Hm, donโ€™t know how?โ€ That being said, our son just bought his first cafeteria meal today โ€“ somehow the Pizza Fridays of our youth is now Pizza Anyday for the San Francisco kids.

  • 6512 and growing says:

    Oh, this is good. Good luck to the hubs.

  • Amy says:

    Dying. That was so funny. My hubs and I are both lawyers. And yet I had not considered such an agreement. ; )

  • Avatar Trish O says:

    laughed so hardโ€ฆ

  • Avatar Noodle says:

    I am also a second year law student (evening, with a full time legal secretary job during the day) and often read your blog in class while eating cliff bars or assorted packaged rubber, pretending that itโ€™s a tomato sandwich or something. The cats that sit next to me always drool over my shoulder. As a legal geek, this post in particular is much appreciated. Thanks for the day dreams.

  • Avatar Caroline says:

    I *would* be laughing, if I werenโ€™t seething with resentment that I am the one on lunch duty ALL. THE DAMN. TIME. Add to that a supremely busy husband who has decided that he is going to MAKE all the bread in the house, and who then decides to make BAGUETTES instead of FRICKING BREAD THAT I CAN USE TO MAKE SANDWICHES, the week before a long weekend when he wonโ€™t be around to make MORE bread that CAN BE USED IN SANDWICHES, and โ€“ well, itโ€™s a sticky situation.

  • Avatar Bonnie says:

    โ€œโ€ฆand upon threat of further humiliation, you will also provide guidance and lunch menus to other fathers who have now been subjugated into every-other-night lunch-making.โ€

  • Jan @ Family Bites says:

    Jenny, this is brilliant! And so very funny.

  • Avatar Vicki says:

    perfectโ€ฆperfectโ€ฆperfectโ€ฆ.I laughed my head off!

  • Kristina P-M says:

    DYING! Too funny!

    Love Husโ€™ line about โ€œโ€ฆdo we really want to be the couple giving free lunch duty and foot massage coupons to each other?โ€ I was almost off my chair laughing!

  • Avatar atinack says:

    your husband is very sweet and funny. you, clearly, are living the good life. good for you. i love your blog!

  • Avatar Sabrina says:

    Oh my geesh! hee hee hee! Loved everything about this and my husband will tooโ€ฆ.heโ€™s numero uno in the lunch making department these days AND heโ€™s a lawyer. Thanks for making me laugh tonight! Iโ€™m linking back to this on my blog soon.

  • Avatar Jessica says:

    Love this. Iโ€™m a lawyer and would love to get my husband to execute such an agreement, but I know heโ€™d just shake his head in disgust and tell me to save my lawyer tactics for my clients. Oh well. I have one in 2nd grade, one in kindergarten, and one in diapers. So many peanut butter sandwiches yet in my future . . . .

  • my name is ish says:

    this is excellent. you should make it downloadable.

  • Avatar Damaris says:

    I love love love that you guys were featured on the NY Times! This is one of my favorite blogs. Iโ€™m glad itโ€™s getting recognition.

  • Avatar Mendy says:

    Like everybody else, my husband and I found this very clever and entertaining. I was happy to see it on the Motherlode blog as well.

    โ€œHereunder? Who are you?โ€ My fave!

  • Avatar Hong Kong Phooey says:

    this was awesome. Never too late to go to law schoolโ€ฆor so Iโ€™ve heard ๐Ÿ™‚ HKphooey&Trish

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