May is all endings and beginnings around here. As the kids have grown, it’s evolved into probably the single busiest month of the year, filled with end-of-school concerts and events and family obligations. But it’s also the month that starts
Category: Feeding kids
It’s that time again! The New Year always means a look back at the best lunches I packed during the previous trip around the sun. As always, I have used a highly scientific (read: totally not at all scientific) methodology
As I write this, the Christmas tree is still twinkling, the candles are lit, and we still have a kitchen full of leftover cookies, blocks of cheese and boxes of crackers to remind us that the holidays are freshly passed.
It’s here! It’s finally here! After one of the longest, most dramatic winters in recent memory (seriously, April? Nor’easters?), we have finally achieved something that sort of resembles Spring. There’s verifiable sunshine, temperatures have stayed warm enough for a long
Things that are predictable about March around here: There will be a random spate of busy weekends There will be a birthday (okay, a dual birthday — mine and P.’s) There will be a Saint Patrick’s Day dinner with my
Ordinarily I try to get my year-in-review lunch post done a bit closer to New Year’s Day, but hey…I’m giving myself some grace this year. Plus, I don’t know whose idea it was to start this cute thing where instead
With a dinner plan that doesn’t necessarily lend itself effortlessly to quick packing of leftovers for school lunches, this week is more about reinvention of ingredients than we’ve done recently. To come up with the lunch menus, I had to
I don’t buy sugary yogurt. I don’t buy flavored yogurt. I don’t really “do” yogurt cups. All of these statements were pretty much true until VERY recently….and here’s why. The backstory is this: While I definitely grew up on —
Five-Minute dinner solutions can be great for busy nights. Family dinner is HARD. This piece of wisdom is something I’ve learned, and continue to learn, as my kids grow older and I spend more time navigating ever-changing schedules — not
There’s a little rush of relief I feel every year around this time. It’s not always right at the end of May or beginning of June, because God knows that’s no easy time for families with kids — as I