{"id":6111,"date":"2019-09-03T16:50:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T20:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daniellebinns.com\/stagingsite\/?p=6111"},"modified":"2020-03-03T21:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T02:41:49","slug":"favourite-kid-friendly-lunch-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daniellebinns.com\/stagingsite\/2019\/09\/favourite-kid-friendly-lunch-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"My 6 Favourite Kid-Friendly Lunch Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exactly one year ago, I wrote a post with all my 8 survival strategies for back to<\/a> school<\/a>.\u00a0 One of those tips was to wear sunglasses (aka to hide the tears).\u00a0 And I’m kicking myself for not taking my own advice this morning when I sent my two older daughters to school today.<\/p>\n

Yes, tears were shed.<\/p>\n

And yes, I needed those sunglasses!\u00a0 Even though there wasn’t a smidge of sun in the sky.<\/p>\n

My eldest Sienna started Grade 1 today.\u00a0 You would think that she would be my ‘been there, done that<\/em>‘ girl and walk through those school doors excited and confident, yet she was the emotional one. Sienna was in tears when she saw her teachers (whom she loved) from last year. So of course I cried too!<\/p>\n

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P.S. They chose their outfits (picked my battles today – haha!)<\/em><\/p>\n

In fairness, I was SUPER emotional as a child and sobbed on the first day for many years in elementary school.\u00a0 I guess it’s pay back time with a daughter who does the same.\u00a0 I’ll be sending my mother an apology now knowing what I put her through (sorry mom!).<\/p>\n

Then there’s my 4 year old Naomi who went to school for the first time ever, yet she skipped into school with a smile.<\/p>\n

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In fact, Naomi’s kindie teacher mailed all the kids in her class a cute package last week.\u00a0 It had this Jitter Glitter poem<\/a> accompanied with a little baggie of glitter for her to put under her pillow the night before school.\u00a0 We had no need to use it for Naomi because she fell asleep as soon as she hit the pillow.<\/p>\n

However, in hindsight, Sienna and I could have used that jitter glitter!\u00a0 And Mackenzie was super sad when she realized she was alone without her sisters for the first time.\u00a0 More tears!!<\/p>\n

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Now that the jitters are gone, and the kids are in school, I have some shopping to do.\u00a0 I’ve been holding out on buying the girls their lunch boxes because I’m committed to keeping them for YEARS.\u00a0 None of this, ‘get a new lunch box every year or two’ business.<\/p>\n

That was my intention with our Bentgo which we’ve had for 2.5 years (which I loved). But the clasps recently broke. Hence currently using a rubber band to keep their lunch box together.\u00a0 I felt terrible for sending them to school with a mangled lunch box, but I wanted to find the best replacement.<\/p>\n

I wanted a lunch box that:<\/h3>\n