There is nothing in the food groups that pleases and satisfies my children more than peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
It is the standard reply of “what would you like for dinner?” .
It is also my go to when I am too busy /tired /stressed /needing a bath, to make anything else.
There is apparently an art to making the perfect PBJ sandwich which involves making a dam of peanut butter and filling the hole with jelly.
I have tried putting the peanut butter and jelly on top of each other and swirling it around, then next I have bought the ready mixed kind in a jar but one son likes a lot of peanut butter and a little jelly and the other in reverse (of course they do). My go to is to spread one bread with PB and the other with jelly (grape , not raspberry as I once tried to substitute to great wails of dismay that the sandwich “tastes yukky”) and slap them together.
The preschool my youngest son goes to, does not allow the children to have peanut butter at the facility. I received an offending sandwich home near the beginning of term sealed in a double plastic bag and a stern reminder of the policy. He had picked up the wrong lunch box. You would have thought I had introduced the plague.
Who would have thought it would be the that important, but the PBJ is an American staple and favorite. When I was little I got a ‘cheesy piece’ , I never knew what peanut butter was until I was about 10 years old.
I believe Elvis Presley ate PB, banana and honey sandwiches , I’ll give it a go.

I bought this aluminum bottle at the 99c store and cut out vinyl Waltograph letters using my computer, Sure Cuts a Lot software and my Cricut machine. Added a Disney sticker and sprayed with crystal clear coat.
I made one each for the kids and one each for the cousins we will be visiting with.
No fighting over whose bottle belongs to who, HOWEVER, the arguing and grumbling has started because “he got Mickey and I don’t like Goofy”. Home is not he happiest place on Earth today.
Now for my coffee….

Found a jelly type iPhone cover in the dollar store that happened to be red with white dots, I added my name in Waltograph font and sprayed with a crystal clear coat. Disneyed!

Only a few weeks until our trip to Florida. We have 5 kids making the journey with us and each has a backpack , a bag , toys etc… Keeping track of everything and having even the remote possibility of having lost items returned to us, I decided to make luggage/property tags.
The photo shows the steps involved and it only took half an hour to gather the supplies, cut the bags and paper and thread the ribbon ( okay, that’s really a little white lie because I had to change a poopy diaper, shout at a kid to flush the toilet and wash his hands, reheat my coffee for the 10th time, reset MarioKart on the Wii, find the hole punch in the office and stop to take the photos) .You get the idea, maybe a project for when the kids are asleep, like most of mine have to be.
Anyhoo, I will add each child’s name and a phone number (use your cellphone , not the home number or you’ll never get the message until you arrive home) after I print off the computer using Waltograph font (free download) and it looks like Disney lettering.
I might also make one onto a lanyard with the kids names on them for walking through the theme parks, yes , we have lost them too at one time or another.
Packing the bags next, what will I forget to pack? Answers on a postcard please!