I did a search on pintrest and up popped amazing cupcakes and clothes and decor all things school.  Super cute but ummmm seemingly impossible when you consider the fact that school requires dressing kids, packing lunch, remembering school work, encouraging through the resistance to get out the door, reassuring the younger sibling their time will come…..

I have been on the hunt for fun lunch ideas but again, the ideas are boundless and require way more than my 15 mins I plan on spending. Sorry, bud, your fruit will not be cut out into shapes of apples and your cheese into the shape of pencils. Nor will it be skewered. But I don’t love you any less! (and you all know I am SO tempted to do 90% of these lunches. I bet I will fall into temptation at least once but I want to keep expectations low at first. I can’t start with a puppy shapes sandwich with scooby bone-shaped cookies on the first day) And moms out there that are doing these…you are my hero!  But we can’t be friends because the pressure to copy you would be too strong!

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Some feasible ideas I have seen are….

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tortilla roll up with peanut butter and jelly and a banana all wrapped up…although I just learned that we cannot take any peanut products! So this will have to be modified! ….a continuation of the peanut discussion is that pb&j is on the cafeteria menu but we can’t send it. It is all so confusing to me!

homemade lunchables…ie cut the ham and cheese and pop in some cracker instead of making a sandwich with bread

hard boiled eggs…my sister-in-law showed me these little egg molds. Jackson will for sure come home asking me how the chicken laid an egg in the shape of a car or a fish but once we got beyond that I think he would get a kick out of them! We got some off Amazon!

Our first week of packing lunches went pretty well. I am still looking for ideas for mixing it up and making it easier but so far so good. And I think he’s actually eating it….I was worried he would be so busy and excited that he wouldn’t touch it and would come home starving. And for buying lunch I am still adjusting to my child being able to use a pin to pay for his lunch on days he buys! Credit cards will be no big deal after basically having one in Kindergarten! It’s pizza day today so I had to let him buy……he has to have that first experience of the famous rectangular school pizza!