Danger, Danger Will Robinson! I’ve avowed no more packages from Japan for a while. My stash of Bento goodies is ridiculous, it really is. I’ll snap some photos and post them later; you’ll see what I mean. You’d never know I’ve only been regularly bento-ing for a couple weeks; it looks like I’ve been at it […]
Why Do I Bento?  1.  Health. Better control over your childs diet. You know what’s in it, and can make sure you are packing a nutritionly sound meal that your child will eat. You can’t necessarily count on your school providing that. My kidlet is only in Kindergarten and although there is a healthy […]
Happy Friday! Egg salad sandwich (the kidlet calls them “deviled egg sandwiches”), plum, blackberries, apple, wavy carrot fries, broccoli, peas in a plastic broken-eggshell shaped cup, a little raspberry vinaigrette for his peas and my first ham flower (its a little raggedty). The hen, chicks, and “cluck” are done in cheese with black sesame seed […]
Today’s lunch is pretty simple. The kidlet loves Bakugan. It’s a game, a cartoon, and physical toys from Japan that is a bit of a craze in the elementary school set.  He doesn’t know how to play the game. He just came home from preschool one day knowing what they are and wanting to get some […]
Yo Gabba, Gabba is a nickoloeon program for preschoolers. It’s a crazy show. Yet another example demonstrating that the makers of kids programs must be on some wild drugs (think boobah — I rest my case). In spite of (or because of) the bizarro nature of it, the kidlet likes it. Eventually I hope to […]
Bento-ing can be contrary to my current frugal goal of tightening up my food budget. It could be very wasteful. I cut away a lot of bread to fit sandwiches to the box, Fruit and veggie shapes leave a lot behind, cheese buses and sonics leave tons of scraps, and so on. What do you […]
I am not real thrilled with today’s bento entry. I had no time last night for any elaborate prep; we had a school picnic followed immediately by the years first PTA meeting. It was after kidlets bedtime before we got out of there, baby L was tired, screaming, and would only calm and sleep by […]
The Kidlet loves Sonic the Hedgehog. He plays sonic unleashed on the xbox, and he and daddy have downloaded the oldskool versions of sonic (horrific graphics and all) and he loves playing those, too. He’s got an eductional sonic game for his leapster — well, you get the idea. He thinks the little blue speed […]
Drop off this morning was almost as hectic as the first day. I’m sure in a couple of weeks we parents will be like, ‘ok, there’s the door, bye!’ But for now, those of us dropping off our kids instead of sending them on the bus are crowding the room, making sure lunches get put […]
If you have a child, you might know the story “The Kissing Hand”. it’s about a raccoon headed for his first day of school. To help him conquer his fears, his mom kisses his palm, so he can look at it and be reminded that she loves him. We read the story again last night […]
