Sorry readers

Sorry I have been MIA, we have been having a super fun summer and unfortunately for us, it's almost over. I hope everyone is having a fun fun fun summer. I am still posting some lunches not as often on Instagram - Lunchesby1Happymommaof2   and I am on Twitter @1happymommaof2. Catch me on Facebook here I am going to be starting my back to school series the week after the 4th of July. Be ready!

Have a fun one
Megan

It has been 11 days

I am so sorry, I took a week off from blogging for the first part of summer break. I am back and I have a product review. I just got this product and used it for the first time today, however, I am a huge fan already.

I hope everyone is having a great summer break! I have had so much fun with the kids and all the free time I have has allowed me to really evaluate somethings in my life and for my family. It has been amazing and a new blog I found had a post about finding pause in your day from a higher power. It was titled "Is God Interrupting My Day?" and it spoke to me. I realized I have been lacking in some areas in my love. I am refocusing and some awesome changes are coming thanks to a dear friend who has offered some amazing advice.

Back to the product review. I am sure you have heard me mention Momables on my blog and or social media from time to time. I first came across her blog via a twitter giveaway maybe a year ago. I was looking through her amazing recipes. I tweeted a few questions and she so graciously answered back (sorry, I am one who loves it when a blogger  interacts with their readers. It's a huge plus in my book to be friendly and engage with them as much as you can). The ONE question I asked was if she was using Ziploc containers to pack her lunches and she said "No, I am using EasyLunchboxes by Kelly Lester they are more kid friendly and durable" I thought ohhhh okay, I will keep using my ziploc containers for my husband and myself. So fast forward almost 11 months to last Wednesday and I was on my last container. The lids were no longer clicking into place and my lunch was no longer fresh. My husband killed our very last one by leaving it in his car, the dash read 125 (UGH AZ HEAT) and the container just warped. So using my Amazon Prime, I placed an order and Friday came

For $21.95 (your shipping and totals may vary) I ordered 4 containers and a set of dip containers (8 come in a package) I was so excited (Yes, lunch containers I get super excited over because I love a variety). The moment I opened them, I was impressed! They are super durable (I mean husband proof). I packed them on Sunday for the first time one for my husband and one for myself

(My husband have Vegetarian Taquitos (recipe via Weelicious), homemade Organic Guacamole, and Organic Tortilla chips)

I had Toasted Oat & Honey bread, PB2, cheddar cheese, strawberries, a peach, and blueberries)

I love these containers and will be placing a new order soon for their Brights line and a cooling bag.

If you are looking for an economical way to pack lunches and don't want to worry about the containers being weak or your kids (or in my case husband) losing them. I HIGHLY recommend EasyLunchboxes! I immediately tweeted Momables and said I should have listened to her a year ago.  I am able now to pack a week's worth of lunches in one day and my husband just grabs them and goes. When school starts back up and I am running here and there, I can pack lunches for me to go. 

Disclosure - *This product review is NOT A SPONSORED review. I ordered the product and paid for any and all product, taxes, fees, and shipping. Kelly Lester or EasyLunchboxes did not ask me to review or provide the product. I often love to share products I use in hopes of helping another person in what they might need or works for them. 

Sick kids and a nail to the tire

It has really really really been a crazy for the past 3 days. My poor daughter has been sick with a stuffed up head. The poor thing, she has been miserable and hasn't been able to go to and have fun with her friends. I have been up for 2 nights straight. Literally the total amount if sleep I have had in 2 nights is 6 hrs. Last I checked, it was summer break and I was suppose to be getting all sorts of sleep.

Today, I decided it was time to take my baby girl to get her ears checked. Thankfully, no ear infections, she has a slight case of vertigo. So it explains everything she has been doing the past 2 days. We have some bumps and bruises and a sick tummy. It has been a few interesting days around here with this illness.

I was so happy I loaded my kids into the van and all the sudden I see it. THIS HUGE metal object in the tread of my tires. I had a bolt in my tire, I of course immediately get upset. I don't know a lot about cars, except that they don't have blinker fluid or muffler bearings. (Inside joke from my high school days). I got my sleepy self to call my husband and to just take it to the auto shop. I have to say how happy I am we got a Road Hazard Policy for our tires. It was free, but having a toddler with vertigo and no stroller a trip to the mall well... This experience is going to be a fun one well, not that, but interesting for sure.

The gentleman behind the counter told me 2.5 hours, so off we went. I tried so hard to get my daughter to stay seated as much as possible. With an almost 3 year old that lasted maybe 2 minutes total. We had to go to the princess store, absolutely had to go. We managed to go to a few stores and it was, in all honestly heavenly. My kids were so well behaved, for 2.5 hours going all over the mall. I got my glasses adjusted, I tried on shoes for both kids, I got a lot done. It was super amazingly a smooth trip, I signed our work orders and left. We went and ran the rest of our errands and it was great, I rewarded with cookies.

Chores and your kids

I have a 9 year old and a 3 year old in one week. Hold on while I shed a tear that our baby is getting bigger and bigger. My husband and I are pretty much mostly on the same page when it comes to chores. The weirdest thing we do is, we don't pay an allowance. We are teaching our kids about money but we have standard chores and then I am guess what would be "commission" chores.

Standard being the obvious, clean your room, pick up your clothes, clear the table, be respectful and so forth. When we offer commission chores it's things like cleaning baseboards weekly, cleaning the kitchen, cleaning the pans from dinner, laundry, and so forth. I saw a pin on Pinterest (where ALL mom's get their ideas) that had a board with the money attached. It has been the BEST idea, my son picks a chore and collects his "commission" immediately. The hardest part is my son NEVER SPENDS A PENNY, birthday, tooth fairy, commissions and so forth. We love that he saves, but getting him to splurge is hard for us to get him to understand. He says he is saving for a house, in 9 years. We love that he is wanting to save, we also just hope that he learns to get a treat for himself every now and then.

How do you plan chores for your kids?

Summer Projects

I have a list of various Summer Projects I want to get started. My first one is getting a better morning routine. I am horrible at mornings. I want to be better because at my age, the late nights are no longer my friend. I follow this blog called Money Saving Mom. I am a huge huge fan of Crystal's, first, she has quadrupled my Kindle Library in a month with her links to free books. She posts update daily that save me money and offers so much more.

I purchased her book Say Goodbye to Survival Mode and I obviously being a poor time manager, haven't found the time to read it. I have a lot of different blogs that I follow, some of them share their morning routine. As I sit trying to wake up after I run my son to school, I am jealous of their time management. I have to say, I do not know where to start. So, my goal is to have this book read in a week. Maybe, I will have a system down and I will find more down time for me.

I would love to watch a movie start to finish in ONE sitting. Devote more time to my daily devotionals and Bible Reading. Who knows, maybe I could paint my bathroom in an afternoon.

My biggest issue is my and I know you see the memes, I have ADD cleaning. I will literally change the laundry and half way through the process, clean the kitchen and my master bathroom. Hours later, the washer is still half way filled with wet clothes.

So hopefully, this book will jump start a new morning routine

Murphy's law

So if you follow me on Instagram you saw that today was our last day of school. My relief was nonexistent as I was so tired from the day before, well really this whole week. I had been pushing the envelope so much to get all this end of the year stuff done on top of a few projects my husband and I were working on. We had our 8th grade promotion ceremony, a Sundae Bar for a 2nd grade class, errands, grocery shopping, putting away said groceries, and still home work, and making lunches. I did about half of this with my toddler on my hip towards the middle to end as she was very very tired. DID I MENTION I was in HIGH HEELS for 13 hours straight?

The day started off pretty good, but as it wore on, little things started happening. There was the sugar crash of my daughter who had an ice cream sundae. Grocery shopping with the after work crowd (not my favorite thing to do). I was so thrown off on my schedule, I left my list at home and did it from memory. I forgot some key items. So that is another trip I have to make soon.

Naps were not taken so of course crying and I am guilty of bribing to get through all the errands. A mom has to do what a mom has to do. She had been so wonderful, but running after the big school kids all day, she needed rest. She decided to fall asleep at 6 PM so that meant her bed time was going to be WAY LATER than normal.

Then comes the biggest incident... the HOMEWORK incident. It is the night before the last day of school. Their Big Math test was already done, but NO, NO NO NO. We are going to do a double sided division work sheet. Just for fun. I am trying not to crab to much, but come on, they are done. The Honor Roll assembly was the next day at 8:30 Grades are done. So my son is doing his homework at 9 PM way past his bed time and it starts. He literally finishes and here comes the worst nose bleed ever. If you have been following Arizona, it is REALLY DRY HERE. We have a lot of wildfires happening and the side of the highways with the dry landscapes are literally bursting into flames. So 20 minutes later, there is a mess from the dining room to the kitchen. His homework is not in any condition to be turned in.

My son is a serious 3rd (now 4th grader), I knew the teacher would understand. NOPE, he had to have his homework. I promised him, I would take care of it. I get everyone in bed, lunches made, groceries put away, kitchen cleaned. I grab my wonderful little pint of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food (best stuff ever) and I sit to get the work sheet from the Math Site. I press Print at 11:39 pm... NOTHING. I press print again... NOTHING. My printer was disconnected from the network. So after working with the horrible Windows 8, I get it back online. I press print again at 12:04 AM... a message appears (ink is low).

At this point, I am willing to take the F for the grade. I get out my legal pad and start writing all the math problems.... I messed up 3 times. On my 4th attempt to create the work sheet, I wrote the last problem wrong. I decided OHH Well.

BY 12:49 AM, my tired, hungry, sore self went to bed. I woke up deader than a Zombie and could barely walk. I went to the Awards Ceremony to see my son get the Honor Roll. I some how finagled a 3 hr nap from my daughter so I slept in a blissful Advil aided state. I woke up not feeling fully awake, but I was awake enough to go to Pack Meeting.

My son did get an "A" in Math... I guess Murphy wanted me to really earn my Summer Break

Wexy Lunch and Munch Bags Review

Long time no write, the past week and next week are going to be SO CRAZY. It's our last day of school a week from TODAY! Between end of the year activities, Baseball Championships, PTO events, and our regular routine. I am finding no time for writing and I find myself counting the days to May 23rd when we can finally sleep in.

With our hectic schedule, I have found there is NO TIME for constantly washing our snack containers and such that I pack for when we are going to be gone. I was emailed last week by Wexy Bags to do a review and I thought to myself "Perfect Timing". I knew I was going to be running all over and I would have a chance to use the product A LOT!

When I find out about a new company, I love to read their About Us story. You find so much out about the founders especially what drove them to create their brand. In reading about Wexy Bags I read about Carie and her needs to provide lunches and snacks for her son who had a Gluten Intolerance and various food allergies. Tracey believed in providing foods that weren't processed or filled with GMO's to her family. Immediately you can see just like most mom's out there they have wants and needs for their kids. In creating this product they felt kids needed to get excited about healthy foods. You see so many foods that are overly processed with fun characters on it. My daughter sees them and wants them too, but cartoons don't fool mom. Carie and Tracey felt that kids need to get excited about their food, along came WEXY bags! They have 4 adorable Monsters Sammy the Surfer, Scout the Soccer Player, Bailey the Bubble Maker, and Dusty the Diver

My daughter has fallen in love with Bailey the Bubble Maker, she took all the bags to her room at one point. They are super cute and SUPER fun and you can read more about the monsters here. 

I used these bags non stop since I got them, if you follow me on instagram you have seen them there in some of my posts. 

I am loving Wexy Bags for a lot more than just their cute monsters. They are also Bisphenol A (BPA) free, which as we all know is a major concern these days with our exposure to this chemical especially in kids. BPA has been known to cause cancer, asthma, heart disease, thyroid problems, even obesity. These bags are 100% BPA free! 

If you are concerned about recycling or post consumer waste, Wexy Bags are 100% biodegradable. When thinking about health, Carie and Tracey thought of everything. That includes the effects on the enviorment! Their product box is also 100% recycled cardboard and made in the USA! As Moses Henry Cass said "We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children" I love this product so much that it honors a quote I love so much. 

I have fallen in love with these bags and as a mom on the go they support my ideals. I love that I have bags that are fun for my kids and friendly to the environment. With our summer activities too such as swim practice 2 times a day, we will be needing a ton of on the go snacks!

If you go to Wexy Bags you will find out all sorts of information, including placing an order. I found a small little something that ANY PARENT can use, and that is a FREE E-BOOK! In this little bonus are snack and meal ideas! The recipes are allergy friendly as well, and they explain the nutritional benefits to each recipe. I have recipe #12 planned which is Bailey's French Toast Bites planned for our first Breakfast of Summer Break and Recipe #4 Frozen Grapes is going now since Grapes were on sale this week! 

I included a few pictures from my instagram, as you can see, the bags add some fun to snack time. 

 

Disclaimer: This was a sponsored post by  Wexy Bags. Wexy Bags AKA Two Moms on the Go, LLC provided the product for my review as compensation. All opinions and photos are mine and of my own views. Please ask to use pictures or an context from this blog If you have any questions please feel free to email me HERE 

Sources: Wexy Bags and Wikipedia Bisphenol A (BPA)