an enchanting lunch

My daughter has a play date today.  I wanted to make a special lunch for them and found my inspiration from some princess cookies that had a high heel and heart on them. We made some banana bread yesterday and I cut it into the shape of a high heel.  They had some pink yogurt with heart sprinkles and strawberries on the side.  They sipped pink lemonade with heart shaped ice cubes and had the cookies for dessert.  They are going to spend the rest of the afternoon making valentines and playing dress up!

lunch box love notes

Lot's of mom's like to tuck little notes into their children's lunch boxes, including myself!  Recently, I picked up these cute magnets for a few dollars at Marshall's.  I have been using them in my daughter's metal lunch box to leave her special messages.  Tomorrow she has library so I wrote "get books"!  She loves to see what the new message is and is getting some practice with letter recognition, sounds, and reading all at the same time.  Win, win.

that's a wrap

 It has been a busy week in our house.  My daughter started Kindergarten on Tuesday and my son goes to pre-school tomorrow!   I saw this idea and thought it was the perfect thing to send in with my son on his first day.  I filled a lunch box with a hearty fern (I asked at the garden center for a suggestion of a good classroom plant).  I used a pencil as the garden marker with a sticker that says "bloom where you're planted".  I hope all of our readers have had an exciting and fun first few days/weeks of school too.