2 Weeks of School Left!

We hope that everyone had a fantastic Memorial Day weekend.  A big THANK YOU to all of the men and women who have served or are currently serving.  Your sacrifice and selfless giving means so much to all of us.

Back to school tomorrow with only a few weeks of school left.  Molly has made such great progress this year and makes us so proud.  She's become more independent and very aware of the choices that she makes.  She isn't afraid to ask for the things that she would like.  Take tomorrow's lunch for instance.  She requested every single thing in it.

Our main entrée is a cheese sandwich.  Yep, a good old cheese sandwich on white bread.  Molly requested Pepper Jack cheese but we didn't have any so she said that Colby Jack would be fine.  We added a little bit of mustard, per her request, and cut it out with heart shaped cookies cutters.

Our vegetable side is cucumber sticks.  Molly really likes the cucumbers cut into sticks.  Sometimes we have these at home with some hummus as a nice snack.

Our fruit side is sliced strawberries.  We had a lot of these over the weekend.  Whether in fruit salad, strawberry rhubarb pie or just plain like this, they were so delicious.

Finally, we have a special request  treat.  Molly asked if she could have some salsa chips in her lunch and they are so yummy that we couldn't say no.

Good Grub

We are all excited for the Memorial Day weekend to arrive and the fun picnics that go with it.  Our family is having a get together with our neighbors and we can't wait.  We were all together this past weekend and talking about the dishes that we would contribute to the picnic.  Our mouths were watering just thinking about all of the yummy things that we'd be having.  Then, our minds were full of excitement with the prospect of summer being around the corner and impromptu picnics together on random days.

This got me thinking about things to make for Molly's lunch.  We're back into the time when cold salads and cool desserts are on the docket for just about every meal.

Our main entrée is cheese tortellini pasta salad.  We made this tortellini for Molly's brother and sister for lunch today and reserved some for Molly's lunch tomorrow.  We added some of Molly's "favorite sauce", light Italian dressing and just let the simplicity take over.

Our vegetable side is a repeat from today.  Cucumber sticks.  Molly requested theses because she said that she could dip them in any remaining dressing left in the tortellini dish.

Our fruit side is also a repeat from today.  Molly got the last of the blackberries and some strawberries.  She washed these herself and arranged them in the container.

Finally, our dairy/dessert is our favorite Dannon Light and Fit vanilla yogurt.  Molly requested this so that she can add some of the berries to it.  She also was the one who put it in the container.  She likes to help make her lunch. ☺