Lunch Box Quotes

As the kids have gotten older, things that seemed ‘must do‘ have slipped into ‘if we can get to them‘ categories. This whole Halloween season feels like it is going that direction. Carving pumpkins was one of the highlights of October, and getting costumes ready was talked about for weeks. This year, because the kids are more independent, they have pretty much taken care of the costumes themselves, and the idea of trick-or-treating is just an afterthought. Tonight, with only one day left, it’s pumpkin carving!

I got lucky today. Last night we got out of our routine watching the World Series, so I didn’t do my part of the dishes. I had to do them in the morning and am all out of whack. But I was able to find really good quotes in one stop.

As a reminder, A couple of weeks ago, while sending 2 and 3 out the door, Number 2 asked why I haven’t been writing notes to put in their lunches this year. Last year, on the days I’m not traveling for work, I got up early, made the kids their lunches, and put a note in each one’s lunch box. Their mom started it. She would write something sweet…mom-type stuff. That is not really my thing, so I would look for cool quotes that seemed to fit the day or something they were going through. For 2, 3, and 4, it’s a note on a napkin. For Number 1, it’s a text.

Quotes:

1. “The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.” – Aldous Huxley

2. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

3. “The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.” – Thomas Merton