@MissPeppermint 30 May 2023

it's over a month since i posted an update. i hope eveyone is doing great. I have something to share today. my niece Samantha is on her 5th grade. This morning she told us that she will be back home for lunch. it was unsual for her and for us to hear this from her. she likes to spend her lunch time at school with her friends. when we asked her why, she said that she doesn't have an appetite to eat if she will eat in school (specifically today). we know that she is up for something, so her mama asked her the real reason. she said she'll be bringing her classmates over for lunch because they will be making a school project. we let her do that, it's not a big deal. I cleaned their bedroom this morning and found wrapers of chocolate on her bed. fixed her stuffed toys and i put on the glow in the dark stars i purchased online on the ceiling. we cooked beef stew for the lunch and waited for my niece and her classmates. 12:00noon and they were not home yet. a couple of minutes later they arrived. she brought her two classmates. we immediately set the table. i noticed one of her classmate is using an old ice cream tub as her lunch box. when we were eating she put her ice cream tub lunch box on her lap and ate. she never put it on the table even though we told her. it is normal for us to put food on my niece's plate, when i looked into her classmates's food my heart was broken. Rice with soysauce...that was what she had for lunch. I asked if she already ate half of it to confirm what I am seeing. she said no. Rice and soysauce. Rice and soysauce. She was shy and wasn't touching our food on the table, I put some hot rice and beef stew on her lunchbox which she ate. After they ate, we let them hangout in my niece's room. I gave them chocolates. They went back to school before 1pm. I still can't get over with what I saw. She will be back tomorrow because they haven't started yet their school project.