Going Lunch Crazy

If you haven't already heard, Raulon and I are planning on heading out to the D.C. area as soon as he finishes school in May (and I mean seconds after he finishes his last final...) to sell pest control.

Raulon is going to be going door-to-door selling and I will be working in their local branch office, which is great because I think I would go crazy staying at home all day while he was working.

We are super excited for out big adventure together and since we have known since the end of October that we are going to do this, I've been thinking a lot about planning and organizing for the trip to make it the best experience for us possible.

One of the things I've really been thinking about is our meals.  We will be staying in our own apartment. (Which will kind of be nice after a few months of living in my parents basement!  Don't get me wrong, we really appreciate them helping us save some money, it just gets a little crowded sometimes when you don't have your own home.)  This means we will have our own kitchen and of course be responsible for feeding ourselves, which I'm actually really looking forward too!

Anyway back to meals.  Todays post is going to be about my ideas for our lunches.  We decided that to really save on money and make sure we are eating healthy, we are going to take sack lunches to work every day.   Now, I don't know about you, but I think lunch is actually one of the hardest meals to come up with.  Besides your typical macaroni and cheese, or sandwiches or leftover dinner, I feel like I don't know what else to make!

So I've been doing a TON of research on the internet and particularly.....PINTEREST!  Oh come on, don't tell me you aren't addicted to it too!

I tend a little boy in the mornings and his mom always packs him a lunch.  I noticed she had Ziploc containers that kind of reminded me of lunchables.  They look like this:

I thought they looked pretty awesome and would be great for organizing lunches.  So I looked them up online and I found this product that is even better!!

These are called Easy Lunch Boxes.  They were created by a mom and you can find them at easylunchboxes.com

Why these are so much better is because they are stronger plastic (they wont warp or tear) and they are BPA free.  You can also put them in the dishwasher and the microwave!  They come in sets of four-so I bought 2 sets!  They also sell lunch coolers that the bentos fit perfectly into, so I bought one for each of us.  They should be here on Friday.  I'm so excited!  Anyway, I wont bore your with my craziness anymore.  If you want to learn more about the Easy Lunch Box System, click here.

Something else I Love, love, LOVE about this website, is that they have a TON of lunch meal ideas to put inside your lunch bentos as well!  I've also found that there are many moms that blog about different lunch meal ideas.  Here are a few of the awesome ones I've found, if you are looking for lunch ideas:

http://lilyanette.blogspot.com/search/label/Bento%20Days

http://www.anotherlunch.com/

http://www.parenting.com/gallery/bento-lunch-boxes

This is the page on easylunchboxes.com of meal ideas.  This one has 170 ideas with pics!:
http://easylunchboxes.smugmug.com/The-Best-Lunchbox-System/Yummy-Lunch-Ideas/10136835_YSuyb#!i=998960659&k=xSuiV


Anyway, that's my rant for the day :) Hope you enjoyed learning about this product.  I know I was sure excited when I happened upon it.  Happy Lunching!!

Feeling Inspired

Lately I have noticed that there are so many inspired bloggers out there.  I wish I was extremely inspired, crafty, passionate, organized and a writer!  I have found so many blogs lately that I love, by people I don't even know, that I don't think I can even link to all of them and follow them all... I don't have enough hours in my day to read AND do all the inspired things people are coming up with these days.  Here are a few of the new  blogs I've found and a photo of something they've done to inspire me:

http://tearosehome.blogspot.com

This lady has awesome tutorials and ideas for the husband and family.

aloveofthepast-cynthia.blogspot.com

This woman loves everything about the past and British culture and vintage, just like me!  Don't you just love this bathroom?!

jensownroad.blogspot.com
Isn't this t-shirt adorable?! I want to make one for myself!!

hatingmartha.blogspot.com

The coolest coasters I have ever seen...I so want to make some!

Well that's all for now.  I want to be a better blog writer like all these ladies, but unfortunately I can't make any promises... Hope these made you feel inspired!! :)

The renovation and the move.

If you haven't already heard, Raulon and I moved into my parents basement to save some money.  Thanks Mom and Dad!  The bedroom we moved into needed a lot of work from all the damage we kids had done to it through the years (a.k.a. numerous crazy paint jobs and thousands of nail and tack holes all over the walls.)  Needless to say, we had lots of patching and three coats of priming to prep the walls for the paint we actually wanted.

I forgot to take a before picture!!! The walls were all this bright blue color and you can see just on one wall how many holes we had to patch up!

Yum!  Just a little advice.  When something boasts "ODERLESS" it actually means that the product smells worse and is ten times stronger than the normal product.  We had to suffer through three coats of this nasty stuff for our ignorance!!!

It's a good thing we already knew we were going to get new carpet, because we made the old, nasty carpet even worse!

We finally got to paint it the colors we wanted.  Of course we had to make things really difficult on ourselves and choose THREE colors!!!

 Next we ripped out the old padding and carpet.... Yuck!

Thanks, Dad for being so awesome and knowing how to lay carpet so we didn't have to pay for installation!!

 My Sweetie helping my Daddy out.  Just so you know, at this point I'm laying on the carpet that's already been laid down because the carpet is so nice and soft and I'm so tired!  No pictures because I looked THAT bad.

Surprisingly, after all these boring photos you had to scroll through, I didn't get a picture of the finished product because, not surprisingly we are not all the way unpacked...

I'll take some pictures as soon as we're done!  Thanks everyone for all of your help and hard work!  Especially to my sweet husband, Raulon and my parents for helping us save some money! :)