May 2009

The Week in Bento: May 26-29, 2009

May 29, 2009

Tuesday I tried a new kind of baked tofu out on Wyatt: honey sesame. You’d think that would go over well, but he hated it and made a point of telling me when he got home. I’m having a bit of a baked tofu crisis. Trader Joe’s cut it’s baked tofu offerings from 3 flavors [...]

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Project 365: Week 21

May 27, 2009

May 21, 2009: I was planning to make Zach a cake for his birthday, so I stopped at Spun Sugar to see if there was anything fun I could use to decorate it. I got a couple of things, but Zach decided he wanted strawberry shortcake for his birthday treat instead (um…yum!) so I’ll be [...]

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The Week in Bentos – Before and After: May 19-22, 2009

May 25, 2009

A couple weeks ago, Heather requested a post with photos of Wyatt’s lunch boxes after he came home. Excellent idea! It was a bit tough to remember to take pictures of the lunches in the afternoons because I’m not in the habit like I am in the mornings, but I managed to get a photo [...]

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Project 365: Week 20

May 22, 2009

May 14, 2009: Everybody loves babies until they attack! May 15, 2009: Batman and the “real” Ninja! We had dinner at our friends’ house and the kids dressed up in costumes the whole night long. Wyatt brought his Batman costume along (I love the collar sticking out of the top. Hee!) and Little R wore [...]

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Project 365: Week 19

May 17, 2009

May 7, 2009: This is a sampling of one day’s mail. I got a copy of Real Simple (yay!), High Five magazine (for Wyatt), a Sur La Table catalog, two identical Eddie Bauer catalogs (one for Wendy Thorpe and one for Wendy Copley), Netflix envelope with Scooby Doo Meets Batman inside, junk mail from the [...]

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The Week in Bentos: May 12-15, 2009

May 16, 2009

You’ll notice an uptick in the cuteness of Wyatt’s lunches this week. For a while there, I was just not feeling the whole cute bento thing, but this week I’m on a roll. (If I do say so myself…) And, you know, not feeling the whole cute bento thing — nothing wrong with that. I [...]