Summer is Over (But the Heat Continues)

When i was in school, summer vacations were awsome!! And, by the same measure, ending of the summer vacation was a sad and sobering affair. I never looked forward to going back to school. Somehow the summer was never long enough.

Not so in our household now though. Little miss Haana had been looking forward to going back to school. The excitement was palpable. In the weeks leading up to starting of school, a couple get together with the girls were arranged. Little miss Haana and her friends hung out at home, went to coffee shop; played arcade games. Then a few days before school, clothes and accessories were decided and arranged, a new lunch box was ordered. Little miss Haana made a meal plan for her lunch during the week, and updated the grocery list with all the things she needed to prepare her own school lunches!

This past week, every day, in the evening after dinner, she brings out her lunch box, fills up the 3 compartments with a meal, fruit, yogurt, crackers, a candy and a drink - everything! The week started with a home-made smoked salmon sushi. Then another day of a sushi bowl (sticky rice, spicy mayo, smoked salmon, furikake, sesame seeds,  nori). Then one day she took fried rice. Thursday and friday she cooked herself 2 egg omlettes and took ketchup in a bowl. All this plus, cucumber, grapes, cherries, 1 piece of chocolate, a few crackers, yogurt, and eithee orange juice or today - home-made vanilla latte (yes she made that herself as well!). She fills her water bottle in the night with water, puts pieces of cucumber and strawberries in it, before leaving it in the fridge. 

In the morning, she gets ready, heats up the meal, puts ice cubes in her water bottle, and fits it all in her lunch bag. After school, she washes the lunch box as soon as she gets back.

I've been trying to gether to make her fancy lunches for me too! But she's not agreeing to it. Too much work apparently!

I'm so proud of her! She's so fancy and so amazing!