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Contest is now over. Congratulations to Shelley Mitchel entry #334 who was chosen by random.org. I have the best memories of bringing my lunch to school because my mom would go out of her way to put special touches inside. Whether it was a sweet note on my napkin or my favorite treat tucked inside, I will always have fond memories of sitting down to eat my lunch at school.
Now that my boys are in school I try to make their lunches special too. We make a special trip to the grocery store each week to pick out their favorite healthy treats to put inside their lunch boxes. There is nothing like being excited to pop open those lunch boxes when the bell rings. Both of my boys love to draw and create artwork so I will sometimes draw silly pictures to tuck inside their lunches so they can laugh at what a horrible artist Mom is! On special occasions, I LOVE popping in during lunch to eat with the boys and their friends. They know when I come eat lunch with them that I usually bring some homemade cookies with me to share 🙂 I hope that these little things will create memories for my boys just like my mom did for me 🙂
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My mom used to come have thanksgiving “dinner” with me in elementary school & we’d make fun of the food :).
When my girls were in school they loved the little notes I would stick inside their lunches or inside one of their books. They were always simple little notes but they would always brighten up a bad day. The notes would say things like:
“Have a great day”, “I love you”, or “Do your best and be strong” … simple but still full of thought and love.
I will do the same thing with the grandchildren when they start school.
I with the majority here in saying that a sweet little note left in a lunch box goes along way. Big fan! Loved getting them from my Mom and love to pass that along to my kids. I also like to decorate their field trip paper lunch sacks to go along with the theme of the Field trip. Farm with farm animals, etc. My kids get a kick out of that.
My mom used to write a note on our napkins, or a verse, or quote. I hated when I was little but by the time I hit high school, i loved it.
She also used to decorate for holidays. So St. Patricks day meant an all green lunch, Valentines day was all red, etc.
MY MOM USED TO PACK NAPKINS IN MY LUNCH AND WRITE LITTLE NOTES ON THEM AS WELL. IT WAS REALLY CUTE AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IT BRIGHTENED MY DAY BECAUSE NONE OF MY FRIENDS MOMS DID IT, LOL! kytah00@yahoo.com
On Fridays, my daughter and I have a speaical ‘Mommy-daughter’lunch, usually at her favorite restaurant.
My mom would make me homemade steak sandwiches for special fieldtrip lunches, I always loved opening it up to find a yummy steak on Cuban bread
I sometimes leave hershey kisses in my son’s lunch box.
i take my niece for a lunch in a park
My Mom use to pack sweet little notes.
My mom had the largest cookie cutter collection that I have ever seen. Growing up she would always always cut the crust off of our PB&J sandwiches and would then cut the sandwich into one of her many many cookie cutter shapes. She had a whole huge drawer full and she always took the time to do this for my sister and I and now that my son is going to school I make a point to do that for him as well. He is not quite old enough(almost 3)to understand what I am doing…I hope that one day he will realize that it is just a little something extra that I do to show him how much I love him and hope that he has a great day!!!!
My daughter is learning to read now so I’m looking forward to leaving notes in her lunch this year. I also like to let her pick what she is having so I know she’ll enjoy it.
my mom had us making our own lunches pretty early but she ALWAYS made sure to bake our favorite treats to include in our lunches…still makes them when we go home! I can’t wait to do the same for my kids!
I send little postcards in my son’s lunches at school. They have little facts and trivia on them and he loves it. I also create our own trail mix each day, with different snacks that he loves.
My kids are little, so they aren’t in school yet. However, I think once my kids are in school it would be really fun to put jokes in their lunch box. Just something to lighten up their day.
My mom used to write notes on my napkin in my lunchbox. Also, occasionally she would surprise me at school to eat with me! I have a fabulous mom!
I put little notes in their lunchboxes with treats as a surprise!
My mom always wrote me a napkin note in my lunch and I do it for my hubby sometimes. My kids are homeschooled, but hopefully I can sneak them notes one day!
My mom never did anything “special”, but she always made me peanut butter and fluff sandwiches 🙂
You’re the kind of Mom I wished I’d had as a kid, but I wish I would have appreciated the healthful lunches my Mom packed me as a child. Everything was homemade, whole grain, low-fat and other kids made fun of me for bringing huge bags of chopped up veggies and chicken legs. Now I’d love them but as a kid, I was humiliated by the healthy food.
My dad would always make me the most delicious salami sandwiches!
My mom would include a treat in our lunch …
My mom used cookie cutters to cut shapes out of my sandwiches 🙂
I leave a love note or a few small pieces of candy in their lunch sometimes.
I love to leave little notes in there…or put surprise candy…or something fun in there!
My mom made most of my sack lunches growing up, but every now and then my dad would make them. If he did make them, he always wrote a note on my napkin. I loved it and found myself looking forward to his lunches! I am planning on passing that tradition to my children!
I have two daughters now in middle and high school…I would make them sandwiches then use big cookie cutouts to make cute shapes. Their favorite was a flower. I would also write them little notes to make them smile.
I love to put little handmade cards in my daughter’s lunch. When I was in school my mom would always do something special like a good luck pencil or something if I had a test coming up or a holiday themed lunch. I love doing this for her!
My memories are actually not of my mother but actually of my father. He was the one that was always there when I was growing up. From Kindergarten all the way up through 5th grade my day would come in and help out in the class room and he would also come and eat school lunch with me. While he would have the schools lunch, I would always have a packed lunch and either my mom or my dad would always pack me a special treat such as an oatmeal raisin cookie or some other healthy dessert for my enjoyment. I would also love the days when my mom/dad would write me a note as it would make my day SO much brighter!! 🙂
I honestly can’t remember anything special about my lunches…however my husbands mom used to put “special surprises” in his sandwiches like chocolate chips and other random stuff. He eventually told his mom he didn’t like it! Haha so in other words when I have kids of my own, I would like to do something cute like that, and hopefully they will like it! 🙂
My lunches…a lifetime ago were PB&J sandwiches and fruit and cookies. I still like that for lunch.
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I remember when my dad made me a turkey or ham sandwich, he would always put the mustard on in a smiley-face. I loved it!
I try to put a cute note in their lunch sometimes. They love it!
I try to add a little treat, like a Hershey’s kiss , to my son’s lunch a couple of times a week!
My mom would always make the seemingly ridiculous number of containers fit in my lunchbox. It was always so carefully planned, I loved it!
I definitely got lots of notes in my lunches… And stickers!! I went crazy over the Suzy’s Zoo stickers. Also, sometimes my mom would use cookie cutters to cut my sandwiches in fun shapes 🙂 Thanks for the fun giveaway!!