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, February 8, 2011

A smelly blog post

Animals are in my lunch notes a lot.  They are just so good at providing material and they're easy to write about if you have a good imagination.  Poor skunks though.  They are always the butt of jokes that have to do with rotten smells of any kind.  But the shoe definitely fits, so they have to wear it!






I've often wondered if skunks think their own skunk spray smells bad or not.  If so, then I would think they would spray it only as a last resort since they don't want to smell it either.  But if it doesn't bother them then they would spray away at the drop of a hat...kind of like the ones that live in our neighborhood seem to.

Also, do other rotten and yucky smells bother skunks as much as they would other animals, or are they pretty much immune to all bad smells by nature?  I have a friend whose mother-in-law has a pet skunk (de-sprayed of course), and it is not a pleasant animal to be around.  It's funny to me that skunks also have stinky personalities!




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