Lunch Box FUN

HRH will start school this fall. Needless to say, I am very excited at the prospect of wearing uniforms to school. I can't wait to get all her sweet little collars mongrammed. And bloomers. And socks.

I started yesterdady on my search for a suitable lunch box. First instinct was Pottery Barn, but I decided to do a little reasearch first.

GoodHousekeeping released a study in 2009 on lunch box effectiveness. Out of 43 lunch boxes tested, guess how many kept the lunch under the standard safety temp of 40 WITH a cool pack for the minimum two hours? None. Not one. Zip, zilch, nada. Scary, right?

So I started digging a little more - the survey was from 2009, so surely there was a lunch box out there that met the safety requirements. And I found one.

LLBean has this lunch box for a whopping $14.95 and it comes in LOTS of colors. It passed the cooling requirements for FIVE hours. With monogramming AND shipping - $20. Glad I did my research before spending too much money on a crap lunch box. (We chose pink with a grey butterfly)

SO - now I have the lunch box. But how do I fill it? A quick trip to amazon solved that as well.

How awesome are these? They cut the sandwich into bite size pieces AND remove crust. Love them.

I hate how amazon has the "customers who bought this, also bought this" section. Because of this, I also bought these egg shapers - cause HRH will chow down on some hard boiled eggs.

And I bought some sandwich containers so they don't get smooshed - and a book on 100 lunches for lunch boxes.

Now we are ready. (Except for the nap mat, uniforms, bows, backpack.... SCHOOL IS FUN!)

You're going to WHAT?!?!

Last night... while peacefully lying in bed with the sweet, cuddley HRH, she looks up at me with those big green eyes and said "Mommy, will you get me some milk?"

I had already fetched her milk prior to this - so I responded "No"

and then the lovely HRH looked up at me with the sweetest broken smile you have ever seen and said "Mommy, I'm going to break your neck"

Hmmm. Guess there will be another long talk with her father.

On a lighter, much happier note - My KK is back. She has been out for six weeks due to the birth of her latest kid. Which meant to me, no lunches, no after work bible study.
(BTW, after work bible study is code for beer)
(Unless you are Mrs Bev, in which case - just kidding - how's Bobby?!?)

Back from the beach - HRH

I just got back from the beach. Sniff, sniff. I do not like the idea that I can't just wake up and walk outside into sand. I like sand. I like it in my hair, I like it in my swuimsuit, I like to throw it at Mommy. I just really like sand.

I also like Carousels:

and I REALLY liked crabbing...

Know what else I like? BUNGEE JUMPING.

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I don't know what is going here - but I will slop it up with a biscuit. Unreal.

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