My kids brown bag it to lunch at school more often than not. Well, maybe not in a true brown bag since that wouldn't be nearly as cool as the colorful or character lunch boxes they take these days. And they're not really even boxes...they're more like rectangular shaped carriers made out of some strong fabric material. But whatever you call them, they serve the purpose of transporting their lunches to school on days they choose not to buy.

My goal is to have a little part of me go in each of these lunch boxes - a little snippet of Daddy. A little laughter, a little cleverness, a little inside joke, a little rhyming...and a ton of love. I want my kids to be reminded every time they open their lunch at school how much they mean to me. How much I love them. And maybe be a little entertained in the process.

So every lunch I make has notes in the lunch box. You should try it too! Feel free to use any of the notes you see in this blog in your own kids' lunches. Or use them to be inspired to write your own.


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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Counterfeit lunch notes

It occurred to me after I wrote this lunch note that it has a double meaning my girls probably won't get...






"Funny money", while being cute and rhymey in this note, is also a slang term for counterfeit money.  Fake dough.  Invalid currency.  Monopoly cash.  But my girls most likely have never heard that term, and maybe aren't even aware that counterfeit money even exists.  So is this man laughing because the money is funny in a jokester way, or is he laughing because he has a bunch of fake money he is about to use to try to buy things?

Since the first rule of lunch notes is no insinuations of criminal activity allowed, I think we know the answer to that question.




Posted by William J. Thomas at 7:11 AM

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