Writing to Remember

Bento Box Lunches

Jack started first grade last week, which means he goes to school all day and will be eating lunch at school.  I'll be packing his lunches this year because not only are school lunches typically pretty unhealthy, but Jack is a picky eater and wouldn't likely eat much of what they served anyway.  Some great ladies from my cloth diaper group introduced me to bento box style lunches and I was immediately hooked.  I can't think of a better way to get my picky eater excited about lunch!  Here are the lunches I have packed so far this school year.

Day 1 - Dog bone shaped ham and cheese sandwich, strawberries, snap peas, goldfish crackers, and a piece of dark chocolate.

Day 2 - Star shaped ham and cheese bites, blackberries, garbanzo beans w/catalina dressing, and pretzel sticks.
 

Day 3 - Mini blueberry bagel, cheese cubes, clementine, cucumbers, and smarties.

If it had happened to someone else I totally would have thought it was hilarious. Since it was me...not so much.

The other night I boiled some eggs for Ruby (you can give a baby an egg yolk but not the white, and boiling them is my choice method of separating the two) and then stuck them in the refrigerator.  Yesterday I took one out to feed Ruby and couldn't decide if I should heat the yolk up a bit for her or not.  With all of my infinite wisdom, in the microwave it went.  I put the ball of yolk on a paper towel and turned the microwave on.  A mere seven seconds in, there was a ridiculously loud pop accompanied by a pretty impressive explosion.  That tiny little ball of yolk exploded into about a million pieces and fully coated the entire inside of my microwave in a disgusting yellow, smelly, greasy, substance.  Awesome.  For just a second I actually considered closing the door and trying to devise a plan to somehow claim ignorance and push the blame on Jack.  Obviously I am totally above that, so i sucked it up and cleaned up the damn microwave. 

Cadbury Eggs

There are so many reasons to love this time of year, but I have to say that one of my favorite things about it is....drum roll please....Cadbury Eggs.  You either love them or you hate them, and I flat out love them.  I'm not sure if the fact that they only come around once a year makes them more appealing and therefore, even more delicious, but they really are an amazing treat.  Last year I purchased about 10 boxes (four fabulous eggs in a box), and stuck them in the freezer.  I had planned on having them for months and months to come, but Bret discovered that he loves them too, and helped deplete my supply at a much more rapid pace than I had expected.  My rule was this...if you eat the last egg out of the candy jar, then all I ask is that you remove a couple from the freezer and put them in the jar so that the next time I want one I have one that isn't frozen solid.  He rarely, if ever, stuck to this rule.  This year, I don't plan on mentioning that they even exist. :)