Why you need lunchbox notes for your kids <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My youngest is in Kindergarten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My oldest is in high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And my middle guy is navigating 7th grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess I should also mention my husband heads off to school everyday to teach middle school PE and health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I wish fear of Covid was the only thing I had to worry about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s also that war going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus Florida and Texas are threatening all the freedoms this country was built on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s not forget climate change, schools shootings, and teenage suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether you follow the news or not (I try not to), it finds its way to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to send my family out into that<\/em> world. They no longer get to stay with me all day, napping upstairs while I could protect them from the outside world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I miss those quiet hours when they were home more than they were away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Because somedays lunch is all we’ve got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get a set of these quick and easy printable lunch notes <\/strong>CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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