Lunch this week, the Triple Stroller, and other School Stuff

On Monday night I packed all of Joanna’s lunches for the week.  I was a little concerned the Friday one wouldn’t still be fresh, but I was willing to take my chances.

Tuesday: A tortilla wrap (mashed avocado spread with ham, cheese, and spinach), grape tomatoes, and grapes.  Also, my mother picked up a huge box of those little bags of chips for Joanna to have sometimes, so I sent one of those as well.

Wednesday: almost the same with some snap peas as well.  Joanna calls them crunchy beans.  I sent some almonds in a snack bag along with because it didn’t seem like quite enough lunch.  But it was; she didn’t eat the wraps and she left her lunch box at school so I had to toss them the next day.  Bummer.  :)

Side view of the wraps – yum!

Thursday: tomatoes, “crunchy beans,” cheese, celery with cream cheese, apple slices and peanut butter.  The peanut butter in the muffin cup inside a little baggie actually worked okay, though I’m on the hunt for some small, lidded, reusable containers for dips.  She told me she looooved the apples and peanut butter.

And this would have been Friday’s lunch had she gone to school.  It’s the same as Thursday, just packaged a little differently.  The orange-lidded container worked well for the peanut butter; it’s just a little big, and I only have one.  James ate the peanut butter and a few apples for his snack today.  The rest of the goodies are still in the fridge.

But it all still seemed fresh enough for lunch, so that’s good.

Joanna had a fever and started feeling puny yesterday around 4:00.  Matt had been feeling a little off, so I think that may be where it came from, rather than a Kindergarten bug.  She woke up totally fine this morning and felt good all day until about 6:30 when a slight fever came back, and she didn’t feel great.  James took a 2+ hour nap (unheard of!) today so I was expecting it when he woke up with a fever.  He didn’t seem to feel too bad though, just a little puny.  Everyone got a bit of Tylenol to perk them up.  So far, Natalie and I are unaffected.  Hoping that lasts!

Tuesday I tried out my new triple stroller for the first time.  Don’t I have a good-looking bunch?!

That bad boy was HARD to push!  But I persevered, and I’ll probably get better at it.  I’m thankful I won’t have to do it every day, though.  :)  I’m super happy to have it and thankful we’ll still be able to walk to school, even with a full house!

This was also from Tuesday – Joanna’s first batch of “stuff” coming home!  She had a homework assignment due today (We finished it last night, and she was so upset she wouldn’t be able to go to school to turn it in!)  She’s been coming home with a handwriting paper and her reading bag each day.  She has a big zipock with a folder in it.  Each day she gets to choose a book from Mrs. M’s class library to put in the bag to read at home.  I have to enter the book in a little log in the folder and put my initials.

I think it’s a very nice way to read new books we don’t have at home!