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Posted in Bento, Food, Motherhood on Nov 21st, 2008
A friend of mine (Hi, Allison!) is having a jungle-themed birthday party this weekend for her son and I offered to help make bentos for the kids. I ordered some jungle-shaped cookie cutters and wanted to try out some of the cute shapes so I made this box for James (yes, he’d had a green [...]
Posted in James, Lauren, Motherhood, Our Family, Sydney on Nov 21st, 2008
On our last Friday off of work, Leslie and I took all the kids to see The Banjo Man play at Jammin’ Java in Vienna. It is a one-hour kids music show that only costs $5 per child (adults are free). Mr. Banjo plays the banjo (funny that!) and sings popular children’s music. All of the [...]
Posted in Bento, James, Motherhood on Nov 19th, 2008
Have you been wondering where the bentos have been lately? Well, I’ll tell you. It’s all Jamie’s fault! We’ve been having some more issues at school lately (that is a whole nother post for a different day) and I’ve decided that I won’t make a bento at night unless he has had a green day at [...]
Posted in Cancer, Motherhood on Nov 15th, 2008
Got this email from Dad today and thought I would share it: Hello, Tracy did extremely well when she had the surgical drains removed on Monday. One more trip to the surgeon and she will be released. The incision is healing and Tracy is getting back to semi normal. We went to the Oncologist on [...]
Here’s a little blonde surfer dude for my blonde little James: I had a late night last night and didn’t make a fancy bento – he had just a plain old sandwich, some pretzels and a banana in a bag. His teacher said he was so sad at lunch today. So I tried to make up for it [...]
Jamie asked me to make a Diego bento recently and I’ve been kinda putting it off since I didn’t really know how to make one! But tonight I decided to give it a try and do something as simple as possible with just his head (Diego’s that is, not Jamie’s! LOL!). Not sure how much [...]
The thing I like best about our monthly cooking club is the chance to try new recipes that I would probably not have tried on my own. Every month or two there are a few great winner recipes that I am anxious to try on my own. Last month the theme was apples and while there [...]
Posted in Cabin, Cancer, Motherhood, Our Family on Nov 10th, 2008
John and the kids and I spent the weekend at the cabin with Mom and Dad. Mom appears to be doing really well. She’s up and about and back to her old self (including driving Dad nuts from 5 to 7 at night, her “wandering” time of day. She wanders about the house, futzing with [...]
Here are two more lunches for James this week. The first is a regular Laptop Lunch, nothing special. I had a busy night after work so no fancy designs for him. From top left clockwise: cheese and black olive kebabs, peanut butter pretzels and an organic chocolate cookie, lima bean kebabs, mixed organic cereal puffs, [...]
Posted in Desserts, Food, Motherhood on Nov 5th, 2008
I made these cupcakes last night in honor of election day because I am just so patriotic! Yeah, right. I just had a craving for cupcakes and will use any excuse I can find! A friend had given me a box of Barefoot Contessa’s Coconut Cupcake mix and I though I would try it [...]
