Making lunch special for your little ones.

As you all know Lil O started Kindergarten at the Montessori School last month.  It was such a huge milestone for our baby to be in school.  She had been home with us every single day for the past 5 years and now we are supposed to let someone else take care of our baby.  It was hard on us for sure.

At the school Lil O goes to we have to pack her lunch.  They have a strict food rules due to allergies with the other children.  No tree nuts.  No sugar.  No sugar filled juices and NO CHOCOLATE.  Things like that. 

One thing that has come out of those rules is my love for sunbutter!!!  If you haven't tried sunbutter then you must.  It's just ground up sunflower seeds.  YUMMY!!!!! 

It has fast become the only thing that Lil O will eat for lunch.  A sunbutter and grape jelly sandwich, carrot sticks, some sort of crackers, raisins and water.  The small boxes of raisins always came back home unopened so I stopped putting them in the bag.  I've tried sending in leftovers for her but she always requests a sandwich. 

So, to make lunch extra special for her I started making her bread into heart shapes.



I will say that a few of my friends gave me a terribly hard time about making the bread into heart shapes.  But it was a HIT with Lil O and her friends.  She loved her heart bread!!!!  I knew she would and it made her lunch extra special.

I even tried to bake a red heart mold into my bread once but it didn't turn out the way I had hoped after the bread had risen.  We just called it tie-dye bread.  It was even a hit too.

The only bad thing about cutting the bread into hearts is that it made the sandwich too small. 

So, I came up with Plan C.

I took a heart cookie cutter.  Dipped it into pink food coloring and pressed it into the sandwich.




Just genius I tell you!!!!!!!

So, tomorrow my baby is going to enjoy her sunbutter and grape jelly sandwich with the pink heart stamped on top and know that her mommy loves her. 

Also, yesterday I crocheted Lil O some friendship bracelets for her two new friends at school.  Today she came home without hers because she gave it to another girl.  Now, that's a true friendship bracelet.  I quickly crocheted three more for her to take to school tomorrow.




I am Supermom hear me ROAR!!!!!!!!!!

September 1, 2010

I cannot believe it is the first day of September!!!  Wow, this year is flying by so fast!!!  It seems like yesterday I was sound asleep while everyone else was ringing in the New Year.  

Just think the year isn't even over but so many wonderful things have happened. 

I thought about starting a Newsletter to send out once a month.  Would that be something my loyal fans would be interested in?  Just comment below and let me know.  I could include Super Family News, never seen before photos and perhaps share a recipe or a book that we are reading.  I thought it would be pretty neat myself if there were enough interested. 

So, yesterday I went for lumbar x-rays.  I haven't heard anything just yet about them.  I hope to hear today or tomorrow at the latest or I'm going to call the office.  I thought I would wean myself off my meds to see how the pain actually was.  I didn't take my meds last night or first thing this morning.  That was  a big no no because once I was up moving around I began to realize how bad my back actually hurt. 

Thankfully I have such a wonderful family and wonderful friends because my mamaw and great aunt are bringing dinner by tonight and my BFF Anna is bringing dinner over tomorrow.  My kids and Superdad will be so grateful because everyone is tired of cereal for dinner.  (And breakfast and lunch.)

(shrug)

I'd also like to thank my sister for driving for to the doc yesterday and putting clean sheets on my bed for me.  It was nice crawling into those clean sheets last night at bedtime.  Ahhh, I love clean sheet night.  Don't you?

Well, this Supermom is going to do absolutely nothing if I can and I'll try to blog again soon.

I'm getting frustrated about how things are working out.

It's after 1 am and I am wide awake because I hurt.  I crawled out of the bed at 12:30 and eased my way to the kitchen to take my meds and eat the rest of the Peanut M & M's.  I'm getting frustrated.  I had hoped to feel better just a little bit by this time. 

But I am not.

I called my doc Monday to give him a progress report.  He has requested that I get a lumbar x-ray.  They called and scheduled one for Tuesday, which is actually later this morning.  I really hope that this will give some answers to my discomfort.  I cannot take much more of this. 

It's emotionally taking a toll on me. 

It's even harder because Superdad doesn't agree with my course of action.  But, I'm doing the best I can and I just want to be back to myself again and be pain free.

If that requires physical therapy then I will do it.  If I have to see a chiropractor then I will do it.  If that requires me to have pain medication to help me be comfortable then I will do it.

That's just how I feel.

Earlier in the day I did a big no no.  After taking my muscle relaxer and pain pill I thought I would enjoy a nice cold beer.  That was a big mistake.  I got extra tipsy.  I never thought that one beer would do that.  It was very nice because for the first time in days I felt ZERO pain then I felt embarrassed that Superdad had to help put me to bed.

So, now I know to take those warning labels serious that say, "Don't drink alcohol while taking this medication because it may make you more sleepy."  Now I know.

I think I agreed to buzzing my hair while in a drunken stupor.  I was texting Monica and she was telling me how she was covering her bald head up and it made me sad for my friend.  I would totally buzz my hair off for her.  She may take me up on it and that'll be just fine with me.  I love my Monica and if being buzzed with her makes her feel a bit better then I'm all over this idea.  If we do this, I will be sure to post pictures.  After that we will be getting matching "Best Friend" tattoos.  (grin)

I'm sitting on the couch with all my pillows, on that awesome laptop, watching my usual late night TV.  Cheers.  This show always cracks me up!!!  Maybe I have a Ted Danson obsessions that I need to acknowledge??  Who knows. 

Cause that's how I roll.

Good Monday morning Supermom junkies.  I'm on the couch feeling miserable.  I just want to curl up in the fetal position and just stay that way for the rest of the day.  I'm really getting frustrated with feeling this way still.  My back aches.  A lot.  It hurts to sit down, lay down and walk.  I've taken the 2 Aleve, 2 pain pills and muscle relaxer so I should be feeling no pain.  One would think but I am in pain. 

I'm trying to relax and breath through the pain as I find my power animal. 

(shrug)

So, I guess I will just veg on the couch all day again. 

I wanted to share something nice about me.  My friend Monica had brain surgery and they shaved part of her hair off.

She went ahead and had the rest shaved off so it would all grow back the same.  I offered to shave my hair for her.  I told her I always wanted to look like Sinead anyway.  She told me I didn't have to do that.  Superdad is very glad she didn't take me up on my offer.  I really wanted to buzz my hair though.  It would have been cool to share that experience with my friend.

Would you shave your hair off for your friend?