All these lunches (and dinners, and breakfasts, and snacks!) for these kids!  It's a wonder I have time to eat too!  Honestly, I don't always have time - it's often a few bites of what's left on somebody's breakfast plate before I head out door.  Or I roll up a piece of ham to eat in the car on the way to school.  Sometimes I finish their lunches when I pick them up at school.  I know, it's a little sad - but what mom doesn't do this? 'Tis the life I chose!

When I do manage to think ahead enough to pack food for myself too, it sure does make my day easier.  If I know I'm going to be out running around all day I will try to pack something to take along for myself. 

I'm trying really hard to get last week's lunches posted before this week is over!  I'm pleased with myself for the lunches last week, I got a little creative with trying a few slightly different things, but still kept it easy.  What a week! Halloween and parties and school field trips - I needed the weekend to recover.  But then the time changed, and not all my kids have adjusted to that yet.  Ah well, such is the mom life.  I love it anyway.

Another week in the books.  It wasn't our best week ever, we're still fighting that fall school germ season, but we managed to get through it. One of my kids has asthma, so the cold season that makes the rest of us just uncomfortable can hit her pretty hard.  And we had a couple of hard nights.  I'll tell you, making these lunches the night before definitely saved my bacon a couple of days - after being up much of the night with a sick kiddo, there's no way I'd be making lunch in the morning.  My kids would have been stuck with a school cafeteria lunch.