Lunch Sagas

Check out the cute Japanese Bento box I got for Anna. We've been doing fun snacks and lunches at home in it. She really enjoys my "cool" lunches and I found she eats more with less complaining when the food is fun. I plan to continue my "cool" lunches into the school year. And speaking of the school year...

In my last post I talked my search for that perfect lunch box. Well I think I've found it. It the Go Green Lunchbox and so far we totally adore it!! It has a single lid that closes the sections individually so nothing leaks to the others and even came with a stainless steel water bottle and super cute case. So this school year we will be having waste free lunches! Good for the earth and good for my pocket book too! Imagine all the money I'll save by not buying all those plastic baggies!

I plan to experiment the next few weeks with fun lunches so she'll be excited to eat at school!! Stay tuned!

Give Me an A !

This weekend Anna starts Cheerleading. She is very excited and is going to be on a squad with her cousin olivia. She will be cheering at a local flag football leagues' games. They have cheer camp Saturday and then practices start and the games start labor day weekend. Should be fun! Hopefully the weather cooperates and we aren't out in 95 degree heat and humidity.

In other news we are only 26 days away from the start of school! I cannot wait,lol! I have run out of activities to keep her busy and she's driving me nuts. We have most of our back to school shopping done, except for clothes and a lunch box. We have been on the hunt for the perfect lunch box and it's turning out to be harder than I thought. I know we want a Bento Box stlye but so far all the ones we have found just don't fit our needs just right. I did just find this one,https://www.gogreenlunchbox.com/products/products.html and it looks almost perfect. I just wish a store near me carried it so I could avoid shipping and actually see it in person. I also plan to hit a Japanese market this weekend to see what they have. And so the lunchbox quest goes on.

Otherwise things have been hot and humid and pretty quiet here. We could really use some rain, it's been very dry. Our kitten,Emma, is doing really well and just adores rides around the house in the doll stroller. She even sleeps in the thing! Drake is good too. The cat wants to be his friend but so far he's giving her the cold shoulder. I think it has to do with her attacking him while he naps,lol! I can't say I blame him.

August is here!

I can't believe it's August! We have been so busy this summer. School is just over a month away. Time flew by this summer and I feel like I all have done is run, run, run!

Last week Anna and I went on a road trip with my mom and My Aunt AnneMarie. We went to the Columbus Zoo, it was really fun. Anna had a great time and the zoo was really HUGE and nice. It was fun to take a short getaway for a few days. Bonus for the adults was the free beer and wine our hotel offered each evening!! On our way home we stopped to drop off Aunt Anne and celebrate her birthday with some yummy cake and Anna's favorite cousin-Alexandra.

We also got a new kitten and we named her Emma. She was a feral kitten that was hanging out in my mom's yard. It's been about 3 weeks we have had her and she is doing great and learning to be a house cat and not an attack cat,LOL! Anna loves her and I think she will turn into a very great cat. That's her picture above. She's a really cool black/chocolate brown stripe color.

Our garden is doing okay. My pumpkins got powdery mildew and I think that they won't make it :( But my cucumbers are still out of control and so are my watermelons. The corn is doing well and when the deer don't eat them we have tomatoes too.

Next week Anna will be going to craft camp at the local nature center. Hopefully I can get the house back to order while she is gone and fit in some coffee with friends. She starts cheerleading on the 14th and is looking forward to that. She also wants to take Hip Hop again so I have to figure that out too. It never ends!!