First a belated Happy Birthday to my favorite girl! I did actually get to wish her a happy birthday BEFORE her birthday and then again on her birthday, but what’s a proper birthday wish without a blog entry?
Happy Birthday Sweet Girl! I cannot wait until Oliver and I can celebrate with you properly! and you sure took care of this candle so I’m fully expecting all your wishes to come true!
Alright, tonight’s blog entry will FINALLY be lunchbox notes. I cannot tell you the amount of email I have received over the past year on “WHAT IS A LUNCHBOX NOTE?!?!” and “HOW FREAKIN’ LONG DO YOU SPEND ON THEM!?!?” I’ve even had a phone call or two. So, let’s clear this up. First off, lunchbox notes should take me between five and ten minutes to make. Occasionally they’ll take longer. Like if they’re covering a special subject (his birthday or maybe a vacation) or his favorite holiday (Halloween.) I guess they take closer to ten now, but my rule is that I must finish all five of them in an hour. And typically I watch a show on tv at the same time, so…pretty much my tv time for the week. YAHHOOOO Burn Notice. But anyway… In the old days, I made some really cool notes. Now that I’m making notes for five days a week, well, they’re not nearly as cool. Basically it’s a little thing I stick in Oliver’s lunchbox to let him know I’m thinking about him. Does he need a note to know I’m thinking about him five days a week while he’s eating lunch (or now snack) at school? Probably not, but I’ve really grown to love them as a recap of what we’ve been doing. Oliver and I LOVE going back to read old ones. So that’s that.
To start off the lunchbox notes, this is Oliver’s and my favorite note ever. It’s from 2007 and the sled moves up and down the page. It is not our favorite because it does something. He gets a lot of pop-ups or pull out notes. It just is our favorite.
This year’s Halloween note..
A lame five minute note…
When I started having to do FIVE notes a week, it really started taking a toll on my creative mind. If I have time to do these, it’s easy, but when I’m running behind, sometimes it takes me longer to think of what to draw than it does to make the note. Fortunately when Oliver started kindergarten they started having a letter of the week — voilà! It really solved all my problems. I started doing notes to reinforce what he was learning in school. There are three “must” notes every week and two whatever I feel like. Less to think about. He gets one LETTER note a week — pictures beginning with the letter of the week surrounding an upper and lower case letter. This is a particularly lame note — obviously a 3 minute one — not sure why I chose it to scan in, but here it is.
He gets one DR. SEUSS note a week. I steal copiously from Dr. Seuss which is sad because I’m not nearly the artist he is. Oliver knows his ABC book very well though and he LOVES when I substitute our family members for Dr. Seuss characters. My husband is a little bird character (See the head of “and now Papa’s in the pail”.) Oliver is a little bird character with feet (and recently we’ve added a hat since he’s never anywhere without one.) I’m the smile and crazy hair. Oliver was stunned when he went to kindergarten and people didn’t know his tag which, apparently, should be synonymous with his name. I fear he may be like Prince and just be a symbol one day. s i g h.
And the third ”must” note a week is one where Oliver has to practice his WRITING. Because I’m a mean rotten mom. I had to scan in this particular note — I hope someone comments on the moose tail. Do moose have tails? Really, deciding what a moose tail looks like took me longer than the whole of the remainder of the note.
Okay, so hopefully you’re all up on what a lunchbox note is. Feel free to chime in if I missed any of the lunchbox note questions. It was really more exciting when it was a mystery, wasn’t it?
Alright, I’m NOT off to do lunchbox notes tonight because it’s VACATION WEEK this upcoming week! WHOOOOOOOOO! woot. But I am off to finish up the pamphlet for the artist in residence program. Sweet dreams.
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