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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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Do birds like veggies?




It's tough to get kids to eat veggies, so when you find one they like you need to make sure they eat a lot of it.  Carrots are one of my girls' favorite veggies, and we buy them in all shapes and sizes...baby carrots, carrot wedges, big long carrots with the stalks intact, etc.  Now that my girls are old enough to peel raw carrots on their own they have them for snacks a lot - mostly for the fun of peeling in my humble opinion!

I'm not sure if parrots eat carrots or not, but if they do then I wonder if they would also eat them cooked...since my girls sure won't!  But some would argue that raw is healthier anyway, so it works for us.

Also, if you want to make my bro & sis-in-law happy and help some parrots in need go here:

(But please don't send any carrots!)




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