September 2010

Project 365 2010: Week 31

September 30, 2010

July 30, 2010: Augie often falls asleep in the car and when he does he’s often holding some strange object. Here he has the suitcase for Wyatt’s spy play set. July 31, 2010: There’s a new market in our town and we all went to check it out for our Saturday morning activity. We liked [...]

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Project 365 2010: Week 30

September 27, 2010

July 23, 2010: Part of the reason the boys and I went to Iowa this summer was so I could attend my 20th high school reunion. The first event was an informal get together at a very hot and crowded bar in town. This is a picture of me with many of my besties from [...]

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The Week in Bento: September 20-24, 2010

September 24, 2010

Monday I trotted out the Easy Lunchbox again for Monday’s 1st grade lunch. It was packed with: a whole wheat dinner roll, carrot sticks, ranch dressing (in the little blue tub), a hoisin chicken drumstick, Triscuits, a cheese Batman (cut with the Batman cutter) and strawberries. The chicken was the first recipe I’ve tried from [...]

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Cookie Cutter Transformation!

September 20, 2010

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you have probably figured out that my oldest boy is a Batman fanatic. He reads, plays, wears, sleeps and breathes Batman, but he doesn’t often get to eat Batman. With a bento-obsessed mom in the house, this is a problem not just for him, [...]

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The Week in Bentos: September 13-17, 2010

September 17, 2010

Monday Wyatt was home sick from school on Monday, so no lunch to pack. Tuesday On Tuesday my two-year-old’s lunch had leftover pork tenderloin, peas, strawberries, and a corn and basil pancake that I chopped up into bite-sized pieces. The pancake was a new recipe I tried at lunch on Sunday and Augie loved them. [...]

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Project 365 2010: Week 29

September 16, 2010

It’s all Iowa this week, folks! July 16, 2010: Wyatt and Grandpa check out a 3D game on the Lego website. My dad is a 3D aficionado — he takes 3D photographs and has even invented a stereoview format — so he has boxes of 3D glasses laying around the house. July 17, 2010: Eating [...]