Fancy Friday

Lunch 67

Lunch: Nutella on whole wheat hearts and cheese cubes with a beloved little lion friend in the bottom. Cracker nutella sandwiches, roasted almonds, craisins and a few m&m's in the top.

Snacks: A banana and cheddar popcorn

Drinks: Chocolate milk, watered down juice.

So, this is not exactly the "fancy" I had planned. This lunch was from a few days ago. A day I didn't get around to posting. Instead of  getting up early and doing the daily thing, I got a wonderful gift. The gift of sleep! I woke to the voices of the alarm clock radio. They were talking about school closings. They were listing our county, and then our town! Snow day! I turned off the alarm and dozed for a few more minutes. Then the phone rang, it was the school. Ahhh, confirmation. I went back to sleep. It was beautiful. 

I did not have to drag a single kid out of bed today. No whimpers from under covers. No moans of being too tired to get up. No rushed breakfast and snow boot hunts. No missing mittens, lost socks, crazy tangled bed heads or forgotten homework. We all got an extra hour and change of sleep. After fighting colds and being worn out from life in general, this was a well needed, surprise mini vacation. Snow days are for moms too!

*under construction*

I am working on a mini tutorial. . . My first!


Today I opted out of taking a pic. Flat out didn't want to! It was all stuff that's already been posted. . . I really don't want to be boring! 


My lovely daughter says that her lunches are very "stylish" and that I am the very best at making stylish foods. I'll take a compliment like that any day!


Ok, off to dreamland. I need to be awake and alert for lunch making in 6 hours.

Wild Wednesday

Today was different. Today I was required to pack and send a non bento lunch. I have never done that before and I was completely lost for a moment. 

My daughter had a field trip and needed a lunch that was disposable. Nothing to carry around after they finished eating. A day of no containers! I was stumped by this until some caffeine hit my brain. 

Sandwich baggies! Duh. Non perishable stuff due to the lack of ice pack. Minimal food so that there was less anguish over tossed snacks. Easy, quick and mess free foods that I'll pack in. . . uhhhh. . . hmmmm. Brown paper lunch bags are not usually something we keep on hand. A paper gift bag! No, kiddo would never throw that out 'cause they're too pretty. A grocery bag? No, too flimsy. . .

I finally settled on a reusable little fabric bag, had the kiddo practice folding it and stuff it in her jacket pocket. She was happy, so I was happy. 

I made the lunch and sent her on her merry way. No picture. My brain was fried from all the extra thinking I did! Oh well, it was just a jumble of shiny plastic bags anyway.

Lunch: Nutella on whole wheat cowgirl boot (girl still needs a little style). Green grapes, carrot sticks, two mini pumpkin muffins, small chocolate chip cookie and a mini Clif bar.

For some reason I decided recently that cornrows were the thing to do that day. I have never been good at those tiny braids. How do people do that? I have tried. My fingers feel like I imagine anyone's would feel at a teeny tiny tea party. Too big. So I settled for this. It's kind of cute. By far the smallest french braids I have ever done in rows. Too big to be official cornrows?

Ignore the clutter that is life, which continues and intensifies when I concentrate on anything other than whether or not the baby is throwing toys and other random things. In this case there were many great gifts presented to her majesty as she was having her hair done. 

Combo Post ~ Three Lunches

Lunch 65

Lunch: Pumpkin pancakes and cantaloupe. Small bottle of maple syrup. Cheese stick. 

Snacks: Granola bar, mixed dry cereal.

Drinks: Juice from home, chocolate milk from school

This particular breakfast for lunch was an attempt to get this kid to eat some food! She has been bringing home more than she eats. I even precut the pancakes to make it really easy. It worked! Almost all the food was gone. Two chunks of melon and 1/3 of the cheese stick were all that was left after school. 

Lunch 66

Lunch: Whole wheat and cream cheese hearts. Two prunes. Apple, grapes and carrot sticks.

Snacks: Pumpkin muffin, granola bar

Drinks: Iced tea and chocolate milk

Lunch at Home. . .

Grilled cheese strips, kiwi and cucumber slices. Green pepper and green grapes. Star fruit slices. Ketchup in the center of one plate.

It never fails to amaze me, when the food is put in a pattern, it vanishes much faster. It doesn't need to be cute. It just needs to be interesting.

Sunday Supper

Simple Supper

Sometimes there is nothing more satisfying than warm, tender and tasty chicken sitting on top of a fresh salad! We had this friday night and I was a few bites in before I remembered the pic! 

Ok, back to enjoying our lazy sunday.