Phenomemom

-Cooties-

What a week!

Vincent has been in school for a mere two weeks and it seems we have already been affected by all of those extra cooties!

Silas, Jude, and I caught something nasty. Silas seems to have gotten over it for the most part, while Jude and I are still feeling it. I'll tell you what, an ill Jude is no fun at all. My sweet little angel has been inconsolable several times a day and that boy can scream! He and I both had low fevers that fortunately only lasted 24 hours. Hopefully, we will be completely over it by tomorrow.

-Love Struck-

Vincent is still enjoying school. The weeks leading up to him starting, he'd had his heart set on finding a girlfriend. By day two he had found her. Her name is Shiann but he was calling her "Kimberly" for a while.(Kimberly is the Power Ranger that he has a crush on. heehee) One day this week when he got home, he was really mopey. I came to find that his sweet Shiann had rejected his marriage proposal. He looked so pitiful. He said, " I asked her, 'Am I not enough?'" How heartbreaking! My four year old is love struck. He has assured me that their relationship has since improved. :)

-School Lunch-

Previously, I mentioned how Vincent had not eaten the lunch that I made him on the first day of school. He'd told me that day that his teacher said that he wasn't allowed to eat it. I disregarded it as a fib to get him out of trouble. Well, come to find out, it was not a lie. His school does not allow the children to bring their own lunch without a doctor's note. I assume this is because of other children's possible allergies? I am on a mission this week to get a note because after just 9 days of eating what they prepare, his digestive system is completely different. I am confident that with a copy of the school menu, I won't have a problem getting his pediatrician to sign off on it.

-Upcoming-

This week I am looking forward to sharing some fun new recipes and some fun crafty things that I will be trying. It's these sorts of things that I look most forward to blogging about.

To begin with, here is a useful recycling tip!

If you've got children, you likely have plethora of these clippie hangers. I don't use them at all so they have been piling up and I was JUST about to just toss them all when I came across a great tip originally posted here.

I went to clean out his lunch box and found that not a single thing in it had been touched. This had me pretty aggravated.

(Natural peanut butter and honey on whole wheat, crab stick, slices of turkey and cheddar, whole grain club crackers, apples, cucumbers, choco goldfish, and apple sauce)

I try very hard to limit the amount of pre-made and processed foods that my family consumes. I spend extra money on groceries because of this. I have always known that I would prepare my boys' lunches, knowing that even though school lunches are supposed to be balanced, they aren't typically very healthy.

Apparently, Vincent wanted cafeteria chicken nuggets instead of what I sent with him (even though he picked out what he wanted me to pack and sat watching excitedly as I cut shapes into his cheese). I don't want the lunch that I send him to be an option along with the school's provided lunch. I want him to eat what I have prepared. I think I will be sending his teacher a note to have her enforce this. I hope to start preparing his lunch Bento-style, so that should make frozen chicken nuggets less appealing.

On a yummier note, here's what(was) for dinner! A common dish in our home, Asian Peanut Noodles. (Recipe forthcoming)

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