We had a great summer and I honestly really enjoyed having the time off from packing lunches every single day.  But after that refreshing break I am looking forward to getting back to the daily routines and structure that the school year brings. If you have followed me for a while, you'll know that I'm usually pretty good about posting our lunches on my social media accounts (Facebook and Instagram), but I haven't been as good about actually posting them here on the blog.  So my blogging goal for this year is to do much better about getting these lunches on the blog every day!  I've come up with the format below that I plan to use for sharing all of the lunches - I want to tell you a little bit about my thought process that went into it, what I actually packed, a few extra tips to think about, and what products I used.  If there is more you want to know - please let me know!

I don't really do product reviews, it's not my thing here.  In fact, this is the first time I've ever written an entire post just for the purpose of telling you about a product.  And don't worry, I'm not going to become one of those blogs that's just trying to sell you stuff. But if I come across a product that I think is really awesome, then I am definitely going to tell you about it.

We are not quite half way through the year and honestly I am starting to feel a little burnt out of ideas. The kids aren't tired of the food, it's just me.  I could easily just keeping rotating through the same dozen or so things until the end of time, and I think they would be ok. But when you're a stay at home mom, you don't have a whole lot of creative outlets, so making the lunches a little creative is sometimes just something I do to entertain myself.  I like to keep it interesting.  So over the next few weeks I'm going to try to come up with some new ideas, because I'm bored.

I'm sleepy too.  Due to a series of events (a flood, and then houseguests), we've had a boy sleeping on a blow-up in our room (squished right up against my side of the bed, because our room is so small that it didn't really fit) for the last 2 weeks.  I didn't really mind having him there, but he is my autistic child and he doesn't always sleep well.  He wakes up very early, and makes a bit of noise in the night, and I realize that I am suffering from some lack of sleep. He's back in his room now, and I am very much looking forward to catching up a bit on my sleep.  Well, as much as one can do with four kids.