Labor Day Weekend is just around the corner!

In previous years our school district went back 'late' because we started the Wednesday after labor day.  This year our whole state is going back 'late' and starting on September 16th, which is well past labor day.

Mr. Padawan and I have been doing a lot of work as I had mentioned previously in order to make the house a bit more functional for his 'office', my 'office' and a place for the kids to do their remote learning.  In order to do that we have been doing a lot of cleaning and organizing, and getting rid of 'stuff' that is no longer useful.

This has also led me to draw up plans to make myself a desk, because I am short and standard desks do not work for me comfortably and I hate using a foot stool as an accommodation to using a standard desk.  I had thought that we would build my desk this weekend, alas that did not happen because I measured incorrectly.  The good news is that I am devote of measure twice cut once methodology, so while annoying that I had to put it off,  I didn't mess anything up yet. This means that I will be doing a bit more cleaning and organizing until we can get out and buy the things that we need.

I also feel tired, it is a lot of work doing all of this both mentally and physically.  That is when it dawned on me that labor day was just around the corner.  I am thinking that I am going to plan on building the desk on Saturday and doing our standard chores on Saturday/Sunday.  On Monday I hope to not really do anything but play games and read, I don't even want to do a lot of cooking.

I am dreaming up food boxes and calling that meals on Monday.  Each person in the Padawan family will have a food box (ok probably two per person, one for refrigerated stuff and one for non refrigerated stuff) and it will contain breakfast, lunch, dinner, and two snacks.  When we are hungry we just grab stuff from our food boxes, it is like a Lunchable on steroids!

Hrmmm now to ponder what I shall put in these food boxes and  make a menu for them so that I know what to shop for on Friday.  

I just created a Pinterest board!  I do have a love/hate relationship with it but c'est la vie my results likely will not be Pinterest worthy but probably tasty none the less.

 Food Bag Day Arrived!

Not really Pinterest worthy, but everyone got a bag with their name on it, and the boys shared a bin that was in the refrigerator (I labeled everything).  Mr. Padawan and I shared a bin, and I labeled most things because I was on a roll not because I thought he would steal my food.

The littlest Padawan seems most excited about this experiment.  I like it because I don't have to do anything today.  And to be fair Mr. Padawan did offer to cook for me today prior to all of this going down, but I knew he needed a day off too.

And honestly it took me about 30 minutes to put this all together.  The amount of time it took to bake my Breakfast muffins.   I will not be winning any awards for nutrition but that is what is great about days like this, they are few and far between so I am not going to sweat the small stuff.




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