Bento Style Lunches and Pennsylvania Summer Day Trips

Today I took my daughter to visit her kindergarten classroom and ride the school bus *tear*. 

I can't believe my little peanutty buddy is starting full day kindergarten in 1 week. 

This summer I was determined to do two things.

The first was to prepare my daughter for eating lunch at school. To do this every day I made a lunch like the ones I will be sending to school with her. The clear containers are EasyLunchBoxes* and the pink and blue containers are from Pottery Barn Kids.

The second was to fill our summer with fun days trips and activities.

Below are some of our most memorable trips. Can you guess which lunches went with each trip?

We worked on preschool and kindergarten art skills at the Crayola Factory.

Had fun Got traumatized at Dinosaurs T-Rex Face-to-Face at the Reading Public Museum. Remember, I said memorable not favorite...lol.

Became oceanographers at the Adventure Aquarium.

Made our own candy bars at Hershey Chocolate World and hung out with the butterflies at Hershey Gardens.

Overall it was an amazing summer and I am really sad to see it come to an end. At least we have a ton of memories (and pictures) to carry us through until next summer.
 

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How to Get Rid of Ants Naturally

The other day my kids and I were in the kitchen, when they broke into screams. 

Why? 

Because of one tiny ant that had made its way inside the kitchen door. 

Once I had figured out what all the screaming was about, I began to look for more ants. To my dismay there were a bunch of ants walking up and down the steps on our patio that lead to the kitchen door. We spend a great deal of time on our patio every day, so chemicals are a last resort.  My solution...cucumber peels and corn starch.

Cucumber Method

All you need to do is peel a cucumber and place the peel where the ants are located. Leave the peels there overnight and pick them up in the morning. 

Corn Starch Method

Sprinkle some corn starch along the ants' path. The ants will carry some of it back to their nest and ingest it. Their stomachs can't digest the corn starch and bingo no more ants. This method may take 2-3 days to see results.

 If you allow a toddler to put the corn starch out, you will end up with a giant clump like I did. This is completely unnecessary, just a sprinkling should do. If it happens to rain over night you may need to replace the corn starch.

Technically, either method will work on its own, but when screaming children are involved, why risk it.

Our ants were gone the next day and have not returned. *knock on wood*

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