TGIF!

 For Thursday's lunch Hubby got the last of the stuffed peppers, and mini Italian foccacia sandwiches.  I have been enjoying mixing and matching colors to give him something cheerful to look at.  The strawberries were a "sweet" and the carrots with blue cheese dressing was "crunchy".

MAC has been sharing her lunch so I tried to give her lots of pieces.  The apple pieces and mini turkey sandwich didn't go over too well, but as always the strawberries were gone.  The top right corner is her fish cake kimchi that she says no one else would even smell, and the last of the mini baguette disappeared.  She specifically asked for the pockey, which is a Japanese chocolate covered bread stick.  She says that everyone liked them and that she gave one of her friends 2 because it was his birthday.

Have a great weekend!

"I Forgot It!"

We got half way to school yesterday when MAC says, "I Forgot my lunch!  It won't go bad before I get home will it?"  After assuring her no, and that she could eat some of it when she got home as her snack,  I only had to refill her strawberries so no new pictures of hers.

Hubby got the above bento.  I tried to make the salami look like a flower and I think I mostly succeeded.  The cheese is a held together by a crab and turtle toothpick.  He got half an orange cut into quarters, to make it easier to eat without a knife.  A few slices of apple, two stuffed peppers to add color and slices of the mini baguette rounded out lunch.  You can't see it, but there is a small take out pack of mustard in the silverware compartment.

Do They Look Like Worms?

I was trying to make a cute curly q design with the fish and when I finished I think they may just look like worms.  What do you think?

The dark pink is tuna and the orangeish ones are salmon, they have a fish and turtle toothpick for ease of eating.  The top is cheese, a stuffed pepper, hard boiled egg and a mini baguette.  The rest of the bottom row is red onions and some radish kimchi.

We used to get a delicious dish from Hubby's favorite Irish Restuaurant (The Irish Channel) that was a smoked salmon platter.  It was sort of a "build your own sandwich" platter that I tried to recreate here.

MAC shared Monday's bento with her best friend so I tried to make today's a little bigger.

I gave her 2 toothpicks (both of them turtles), her favorite fish cake kimchi, and mini baguette slices.  Since there are two of them I gave them each a little treat of a mini cadbury egg.

A New Start!

Yes, I know it has been a long time coming and I apologize for not getting to this sooner.  I have been worn out and been unable to connect my old laptop to the internet.

I have decided, after many little reminders from my mother, to make this a more fun blog than just what MAC is doing/not doing these days.  Let's just say that high school is a challenge and she is growing up fast!

I have decided to make this a pictorial history of lunches.  Now I know that doesn't sound very exciting but stay with me...bento boxes are fun!  As mothers most of us have packed lunches since our kids first went to day care/school, and I know at times it can be boring but take a look!

This is the bento that I made for Hubby on Monday.  He has really been enjoying the different items and seeing lots of colors.  It is slices of a mini baguette, 3 slices of cappacoli ham sliced and held together with little toothpicks,  1/2 a braeburn apple, a strawberry sliced in half with carrots, and a tomato mozzarella salad with enough dressing to dip his carrots into.

This MAC's.  She doesn't usually eat lunch but decided her father's looked too good to pass up.  She has the other half of the braeburn apple wrapped in a wet papper towel to stop it from turning too brown, a few pieces of the mini baguette, some pop-chips and strawberries with a turtle pick for eating with.

Talent show

Yesterday MAC was able to perform an original song for the School Talent Show.  She had a good time and although was disappointed that she did not win a trophy and gift card (boy did she want the $25 to Cold Stone) she said she just really likes performing on stage.

I am glad to hear that.  I have been a little worried that although she has a wonderful voice the last few disappointing auditions would sour her on performing.

She is interested in maybe trying out for the musical which both her father and I support.  I hope that school continues to be “interesting” for her.

Disappointment

The first major disappointment of the year happened on the 6^th.  MAC found out that she did not audition into the women’s choir.  Auditions were held on the 4^th and she didn’t check the list until the 6^th when she had chorus class.

It was a great disappointment for her and she didn’t even go into class that day because she felt if she wasn’t good enough for the women’s choir, she didn’t want to go somewhere that she wasn’t wanted.  It took us the whole weekend to convince her that she had a lovely voice and that she should continue to sing.

 We didn’t quite understand why she didn’t make it and I sent off an e-mail to the director on Friday to which I received the following answer on Monday:

With regrards to MAC not being selected for our women's choir:  I can tell you that, although she has a big, Broadway type voice, that is not the refined, controlled type of voice I was looking for to add to an ensemble which performs mostly classical choral repertoire.  

We didn’t quite understand why she didn’t make it and I sent off an e-mail to the director on Friday to which I received the following answer on Monday:

She felt that everyone else who auditioned got in and felt very aggrieved until she found out that the school’s anime club met on Thursday’s too.

When she got picked up from Anime club last week she was very excited and said, “I’ve Found my PEOPLE!”

Hallelujah

Well here we are almost done with the second week of school.  MAC has tried out for the Choralaries (women’s chorus) and has asked that I contact the Anime Club sponsor to see when they meet.  She has made it through six days without needing her stress pass and being able to sit in the cafeteria during lunch.

I have been very proud of her remembering to put her house key in the same pocket, being able to put her hands on the $100 graphing calculator when I have asked to see it, and waking up when I ask.  We have reverted back to her asking for an extra 5 minutes (I’m her personal snooze button) which I usually give her.

She has changed girls groups and is now in the high school group which meets on Wednesday evenings.  Most of the girls from the Middle School group moved with her but it seems as if all of the parents are getting tired of a 5:30 group that doesn’t start until 6:05.  Hubby has been wondering if we need to change practices, I’m not sure…

Life hasn’t quite fallen into a pattern yet but it is getting there.