And we are back in school! Phwew!
The kids both started back to school on their regular schedules today. Wyatt, my THIRD grader (OMG!), goes to school every week day, of course. And Augie, who is now in the pre-K program at his preschool (OMG!), will continue to need a lunch Tuesday-Friday. After two weeks with no camp or school they were both very excited to get back and see their friends and I was excited to have a little bit of quiet and time to myself. Of course I missed them both by pick-up time but so goes the contradictory nature of motherhood.
So here’s what I packed this week:
Monday
Sunday night I decided I wanted to make Wyatt a special lunch for his first day of school, so I packed most of this lunch in our PlanetBox
I cut the bread for the sandwich with the large inner container to ensure a perfect fit in the biggest compartment and then cut the “Back to School” message for the top of his sandwich from cheese with letter cutters and glued them to the bread with tiny little dabs of mayonnaise. (The apple cutter came from this set.)
I rarely take the time to do something this fussy for my kids’ lunches, so I was pretty excited to show it to him in the morning. But then when I did he got a panicked look on his face and told me he was afraid the kids at his lunch table would laugh at him. Oh no! The last thing I want to do is embarrass my kids with my hobby! I’ve really scaled back the cutesy stuff with Wyatt’s lunches in the last few years, because I could kind of sense that this feeling was starting to build but I felt like this was a innocuous message to send in his lunch box. As we picked the letters off his sandwich, I joked that I’d be happy to write “I love you schmoopy-poopy-pants!” instead, but he just rolled his eyes. In the end he agreed that the apple was OK, so that stayed, but otherwise he took a bare sandwich to school.
Tuesday
Augie started back to preschool after his break on Tuesday morning and I packed his lunch in the LunchBots Trio
Wyatt had raisins, multigrain apple snack sticks (from Trader Joes), carrots, bean dip, applesauce, salami, a cheese “W”, and knock-off Ritz crackers. This was packed in our Laptop Lunches bento box.
Wednesday
On Wednesday, I packed Augie’s lunch in the Yubo Lunchbox
Wyatt’s lunch had bean dip and carrots, grapes, applesauce and pita chips. This was one of the vegetarian lunches I’ve been trying to rotate in more frequently.
Thursday
On Thursday it was Augie’s turn for the PlanetBox (the kids have been fighting over it). I thought it would be a little large for him but he ate everything in it, so I guess I was wrong. He had apple sticks, grapes, a mini bagel with PB&J, blueberries and the broken bits from the bottom of the pita chips bag.
Wyatt had the same thing except I swapped goldfish for the pita chips and put cream cheese on his bagel.
Friday
Today’s lunch for Augie had meatballs, cukes, naan cut into stars, blue berries, and grapes.
Wyatt had the same lunch but I left the cucumbers out of his because he despises them. This lunch marked the inaugural outing for our larger Steeltainer box
I can’t remember if I’ve shown this before, but when I cut the stars from the naan, there were a lot of scraps leftover. I never throw these scraps away — instead I put them in the bottom of the box where you can’t see them and then just layer the pretty pieces on top.
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