Lunches for Back to School or Homeschool

I wanted to introduce you to my 2 little beauties:

I am not going to use their names. Instead they will go by nicknames. Meet Darth Vader (his choice...he's 4 and into Star Wars!) and Princess (she is 2). Darth Vader starts Pre-K this fall with Classical Conversations and supplementing with Confessions of a Homeschooler K4 program. Princess is going to be doing the basics of Erika's Letter of the Week program with tot ideas filled in.

With this being said, I was trying to find some interesting new "real food" ideas on Pinterest. On Mondays we will take our lunch and have it at Classical Conversations. The rest of the week will be at home. I found the most awesome pin from 100 days of Real Food blog. She has a list of 100 different school lunch ideas so you don't always have to pack the dreaded PB&J or turkey or ham. I am super excited!!

We tried out her first one today (we subbed cornbread zucchini mini muffins because that's what we had) and the kids loved it!! Check out her site and let us know what your favorites are or if you have a special lunch you like to make. 

Amanda

Dollar store Organization!!

So in an effort to rid the living room of some mess that I'm sick of looking at, I have been going crazy on Pinterest trying to figure out how I can organize cheap. I am also sick of the "Honey, where is the TV (blue ray, wii, etc) remote...I can't find it!!!"  Then I realized that everyone has been using 3M command hooks to hang baskets for various reason. Here is my take on cheap organization!!

This was the before:

And this is the after:

I am super excited because now I don't have to worry about controllers falling and cords being everywhere!! And, I have a spot for the remotes. Now when someone asks where is a remote I can say check the basket. Ahh, the little things that excite us. 

I used:

1 green basket-$1 from Dollar Tree

1 pkg of 3M hooks that each hold 3 lbs- about $2 from Target (I already had them so I'm guessing $)

Yay...for under $5 I got some super organization done!!

Happy Organizing!!

Amanda