Food Allergies

Delicious Decision Making

The hardest part about sending my children to school initially was getting used to the fact that they wouldn’t be spending meal time with me. I wouldn’t be sitting and chatting with them while they eat their lunch, and for Jack specifically I had a...

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The School Lunch Circus

// Thank you to Mott's® for sponsoring this article. Grab goodness on-the-go with Mott's®. Geeky mom confession: My favorite part about the kids starting school is making their lunches. Jack began Kindergarten in New York City last year, and it was a really hard transition...

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Lunch with Plum + Kindle Giveaway

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I love packing lunches. Surely this insanity is fleeting, but for now I'm really enjoying myself, even though our staple of peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches has been effectively banned from the school premises. It helps that I've found things...

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Guns Ablaze

I carried Jack in in a sling to his first big outing, a birthday party for his Grandfather's 50th. He was 5 months old, and wearing a perfectly clean, beautiful little outfit that I had picked out for him shortly before he was born. I...

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