Why you need lunchbox notes for your kids
My youngest is in Kindergarten.
My oldest is in high school.
And my middle guy is navigating 7th grade.
I guess I should also mention my husband heads off to school everyday to teach middle school PE and health.
All that leads to a range of emotions daily. My whole family just started having semi-“normal” school days when they went back to school without masks.
But I wish fear of Covid was the only thing I had to worry about.
There’s also that war going on.
Plus Florida and Texas are threatening all the freedoms this country was built on.
Let’s not forget climate change, schools shootings, and teenage suicide.
Whether you follow the news or not (I try not to), it finds its way to you.
Being a mother, a wife, and a human being with big feelings in this current world (a super sensitive enneagram type 4!) is not easy.
I have to send my family out into that world. They no longer get to stay with me all day, napping upstairs while I could protect them from the outside world.
I miss those quiet hours when they were home more than they were away.
But now they live in that world. They see what goes in that world (thank you Tik Tok) and there is no way to slow down time or build a bubble around them.
So I find myself looking around and trying to figure out how I can pack all my love and protection inside those lunchboxes every morning. Sometimes I cut a strawberry into a heart, add a piece of chocolate, or send a note…anything to let them know I am thinking about them.
There’s an awful lot riding on those lunchboxes. Sometimes I wonder if those small acts of love might be a bit more for me than it is for them. It lets me hold on just a little bit longer.
Because somedays lunch is all we’ve got.
To get a set of these quick and easy printable lunch notes CLICK HERE.
