We’ve been doing the GAPS diet since last March.  When we first started it I thought Jacob was going to be the one that gave me the most difficult time about it. It turns out that Christopher is the resistant one. So much so that he refused to eat and started losing weight. Needless to say, he is on a less restricted diet than Jacob now.

Before this happened, though, during the school year, he was constantly getting into trouble for trying to get kids to share their lunch, particularly when the school lunch was pancakes. He was so desperate to have one that he actually took one out of the trash one day. (Fortunately, one of the lunch aids saw him and guided him away.)

Now, his friend, Erin, who stole his heart from the first time he laid eyes on her, was always offering Christopher bites of her lunch or snacks. Poor Ms. Holmes constantly had to keep an eye on them during Kindergarten snack time. She tried to be vigilant and support our crazy diet! Most days, she was successful in intervening so Christopher did not eat something he wasn’t supposed to.

Based on what Christopher told me tonight, those kids were sneakier than she knew.

During dinner, Jacob, Christopher and I were all just talking about random things when Christopher said, “Hey, Mom. Do you remember my friend, Erin?” I told him I remembered her.  “Well,” he says, “I never told you this but, one day Ms. Holmes gave the class Goldfish for our snack. Remember that I wasn’t allowed to have them and I always had my own special snack?” I told him I remembered that, too. “Well, this one day, Erin was eating her Goldfish snack and I looked at her and said, ‘It’s been a really long time since I had any Goldfish. I sure would like one now.’ And, you know what she did?”

I said, “No, what did she do?”  “Well, she gave me some of her Goldfish as a secret! And, before Ms. Holmes saw me, I ran over and hid them in my cubby! When I came back inside from recess, I ate them! And no one ever knew! Then, we started doing that every time Ms. Holmes gave them Goldfish! So, I had secret snacks all the time! Isn’t that cool, Mom?”

Then I said, “You realize you just told on yourself, don’t you?” He just shrugged and said, “It was a long time ago so it’s ok. And besides, you pretty much let me eat whatever I want now so it’s ok, right?” Sheesh.