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5 Lunch Box L.O.V.E. Notes #5

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This weeks lunch box L.O.V.E. Notes!

Did you miss week 1?

Or week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Shizzle Drizzle!  You know what I did?  Forgot to send a note on Friday!  My husband came home from a business trip to Germany a day early, I was up late helping one kid study for a spelling test–which is completely laughable because I am the WORST speller imaginable.  What else?  Oh, a week of not going to the gym made me have Charlie Horses all night long.  I slept horribly . . . it was a very bad morning.  

The lunchI packed for the girls was great–leftover stir fry veggies and stir fry rice!  Absolutely yummy.   

Did I mention that it was raining and it was garbage day–a day late because of Labor Day.  Honestly, it was the perfect storm for crazy to happen.  

As my beautiful girls got into the car . . . it hit me.  Oh SHIZZLE!  I forgot their love notes.  Tears fill my eyes as I yell, “I love you!  I forgot your love notes!  will you know I love you?”  Golly.  Can I drip and gush more love than that?   I’m that mom!  The mom that loves up her kids not matter where we are or who we are with (I am learning boundaries . . . slowly). 

They were ok with it.  

Pray @ 11!

Next Monday

I’m going out of town with one kid on Saturday, coming home on Monday.  Can you guess what I did?

Yup!  I wrote their lunch box notes out for Monday and Tuesday.  I’m so ready!  This weeks love notes will be something along these lines:

  • Don’t give up!  (we are still dealing with new school qualms and new glasses!)
  • I am patient or be patient.  (both sound similar but one statement comes from the kid and the other from you.)
  • I will finish my best work.  (this is a loaded one!  I often say “you can finish your work, giving it your all!)
  • I am confident.  (who doesn’t need that?)
  • I will be thoughtful and kind today.

I met several other 6th graders today in my daughters class.  They all like the love notes!  That was really big for me!  I’m so glad that me affirming my kid–giving her tools to manage her day, can help other kids too!  I love this idea, I had no idea it would touch other kids as much as it touches mine.  What an honor and a blessing to be able to make a difference in a kids life.  I’m doing a happy dance!

What’s for lunch?

Wondering what to pack for lunch?  Well . . . I’ve been posting the kids lunches on Instagram.  I shoot for healthy but it’s also very real!

Come Back Each Week!

I will post 5 new love notes each week!  AND a little bit of conscious parenting ideas!

Follow Me On Instagram!

I post daily on instagram.

Need Help packing lunches?

No worries–I am going to post the lunches that I make on Instagram and create a Periscope video (@reneebaude)!  My goal is to help moms create healthy lunches THAT KIDS WILL EAT!  It won’t take long and it isn’t expensive!  I promise.

Be Blessed as you eat and live with L.O.V.E.!

Muffins! 1 mix-4 happy kids

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Muffins for Breakfast!

 I want to make all my kids happy at once–making muffins is not the best way!  One likes the strudel topping, one kid doesn’t, one kid likes the blueberries in the mix, one kid wants chocolate chips!  What’s a mom to do?

One mix–4 different muffins!

I use Simply Mornings from Duncan Hines.  I’m not married to the brand, it is what I can find at my Target (sometimes).  (I live in a food desert.)  What I like is the “natural” ingredients–I can pronounce almost everything.  

Keep in mind–this is NOT health food.  It is basically a donut.  But it does have several redeeming qualities!

  • no milk!  If you don’t know why I don’t like milk–read about it here.
  • makes everyone happy
  • makes the house smell awesome!  I could buy muffins but waking up to the smell of warm, chocolate and blueberry-ness is a wonderful thing.
  • gets the kids thinking about breakfast in a new way–not the same bowl of cereal.
  • lets the kids know that I try to make them all happy (points in the mommy bank!)
  • they get to see how creative I can be with one box of muffin mix.  I want to model creativity, DIY, frugalness and playfulness.  

 

chocolate chip muffin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Did you find this helpful?  Want more?

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Be Blessed as you eat and live with L.O.V.E.

 

 

 

5 Lunch Box L.O.V.E. Notes #4

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This weeks lunch box L.O.V.E. Notes!

Did you miss week 1?

Or week 2?

Week 3?

Week 4

How can it be the fourth week of school already?  Time is fleeting!  What began as a slow start is now full throttle!  High School soccer, travel soccer, middle school cross country, band, art club, engineering club . . . I enjoy my kids embracing all of the opportunities that they have available to them.  Yeah, it is a pain in the tukus to cart them here and there–but it’s part of the job I love the most–being Super Mom (and being joyful doing it!).  

Super Mom–that sounds like I’m really full of myself–but I’m not.  I put my kids first!  I only have this short amount of time with them and I want to be the absolute best–so if I’m a Super Mom or Rockstar Mom . . . the label doesn’t matter, what matters is that I’m there for my kids 100% of the time.  The huge caveat is “when they need me.”  When they don’t need me–I’m a hippy food writer trying to save the world.

I love this weeks love notes–they plant seeds of goodness:

  • I respect others.
  • I am brave.  (this week especially as my middle schooler gets glasses!  Wearing glasses to school for the first time takes bravery!)
  • I listen to others.  
  • I show love.  (for one on my kids I made this a fill in the blank.  I felt like she needed to figure out how she can show love in her OWN way.)
  • I love me!  (this goes back to my namaste theme that I constantly reinforce.  We need to see the light of love in ourselves first.  We can’t share something that we don’t already have.  

[Tweet “How will you stock pile some love so when you need it you can give it freely.”]

Our children our a blessing–they need us to show them we love them and they are our miracles!

 

 

 

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What’s for lunch?

Wondering what to pack for lunch?  Well . . . I’ve been posting the kids lunches on Instagram.  I shoot for healthy but it’s also very real!

Come Back Each Week!

I will post 5 new love notes each week!  AND a little bit of conscious parenting ideas!

Follow Me On Instagram!

I post daily on instagram.

Need Help packing lunches?

No worries–I am going to post the lunches that I make on Instagram and create a Periscope video (@reneebaude)!  My goal is to help moms create healthy lunches THAT KIDS WILL EAT!  It won’t take long and it isn’t expensive!  I promise.

Be Blessed as you eat and live with L.O.V.E.!