Valentine's Week Lunches

We had so much fun making Valentine's Day and love themed lunches all week last week.  Sometimes, it's just sometime as simple as using a heart shaped cookie cutter to make a special lunch.

Our Love "lunchable" is turkey pepperoni, provolone cheese cut with a heart shaped cookie cutter and crackers.  Plus, peppers, berries and a Chobani Champions tube.

 We made peanut butter and jelly for Ash Wednesday (since we are Catholic and don't eat meat on that day). We made it extra fun by turning it into a "fairy sandwich" by adding Valentine sprinkles in the cut out area.  This is accompanied by red peppers, blackberries and Chobani Champions tubes.

Finally, our REAL Valentine's Day lunch is hot pink chocolate chip pancakes. (We bought a mix at ALDI.)  We used our food safe markers to put hugs and kisses on our hard boiled egg, added some berries including a heart shaped strawberry, cherry Jell-o jigglers cut into heart shapes, Chobani Champions tubes and an extra little kiss. ♥

All of this week's lunches are in Easy Lunchboxes.

Hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day!

Sick Day Again!

Did I mention how the only thing that my children are willing to share is illness?  Well, now Mom and Dad both aren't feeling too good.  Lucky us!  Molly will not be going to school again tomorrow unless there is some amazing recovery by tomorrow morning and by the looks of her, the chances are slim to none.  This stomach bug has hit our house pretty hard but luckily for us, the weather was nice enough that we could open the windows for a few minutes today to try and air the sickness out.  Hopefully, there will be a yummy lunch on display tomorrow night. ☺

ps - Happy Valentine's Day!

Sick Day for Molly

Why is it that when we ask our children to share something, there is always a mass resistance that can escalate into an old fashioned melt down?  Yet, when it comes to illness, they have no problem sharing at all.

Molly's little sister was the first one to have the stomach bug that is going through our house at the moment.  She started feeling better and I was hopefully that she would be the only victim.  Unfortunately, Molly started feeling sick last Friday.  I thought that it may have been something else but, she got the worst case of it.  Molly's little brother also started to get sick last Friday so we are a house of sickness at the moment.

Molly is really bummed because since tomorrow is Valentine's Day, she will miss the party at school.  But she also realizes that with her absence, she will not be passing this illness on to her classmates.  Good girl, Molly!

I had great plans for a fun Valentine's Day lunch, but it will have to wait until Molly is well enough to go back to school.  Stay tuned!