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  First grade already — where does the time go! Kidlet really didn’t want to get up and go to school today.  I’m pretty sure it wasn’t nerves (kidlet is so far from shy and retiring), but just a desire to stay home and play.  Still, it can’t hurt to remind him that I am thinking about him […]



 {I can’t actually get any wflw posts to come up, so I guess I’m flying solo!} Inspired by Annabel Karmel’s Chicken Sausage Snails from First Meals (one of my favorite 0-5 cookbooks, and my lifesaver when I suddenly became a first time parent of an 8 month old). Snail bodies are chicken breast, grated apple, diced onion, […]



Summer is 2/3 gone already, its hard to belive.  Another month and it’s back to the grindstone for the kidlet.  In the meantime, camp invention is winding down. Here is todays packed lunch. Egg salad sammies with cheese duck toppers.  Wavy sliced apple flowers, strawberries and (currently frozen) blueberries, peas and a slice of strawberry […]



Kidlet has his final week long day camp this week.  He is doing Camp Invention being held at his elementary school, which this year is thier “Innovate” program . It has a number of modules, but his favorite yesterday was disassembling a “take apart item”, which we sent with him (He took an old mini boombox […]



I have to say, I really don’t understand the people that head out to crazy packed venues like children’s museums, amusement parks, and the zoo late in the day.  When we go to those places - like today, taking advantage of our Oregon Zoo membership – we go as soon as they are open, or as close […]



Poor kidlet picked up a bit of a sunburn yesterday.  He’s never burned before, although I guess I shouldn’t be shocked since I forgot his sunscreen.  He has always had very sensitive skin (he’s the kid that couldn’t be in a wet diaper for 3 seconds without getting a rash), and with the weather the way […]



Kidlet didn’t want to leave day camp yesterday.  They have the half day option (9-1) that we chose, a full day option that goes until 5, and before and after care as well.  Well, the full day kids were having a “field trip” yesterday to – of all places – a field (lol) where they […]



I made up snack bento in the hopes that the weather would cooperate and we could get out and go somewhere.  There was a single sunny day this week, and aside from that it continues gray, frequently wet and rainy.  It doesn’t seem like summer – even Oregon summer isn’t usually this ugly.  I think […]



Kidlet picked out colby-jack cheese this week at the deli counter and it made me think of a mottled goldfish we watched the last time we went to the pet shop, so it became a fish for todays lunch. Fish shaped tuna sandwich with cheese topper (I just got these new hat picks, so cute! ;)), hard […]



Somehow this one didn’t get posted back in March.  Since I didn’t make one today, might as well post this one 😉 Ham and cheese on a roll, blackberries, carrots, cheese and a little cupcake.