My daughter loves to help me make dinner, and recently wanted to help chop the onions for the burgers.  She is nearly 8 years old, and as much as I can’t stand to watch, she does use a big, sharp chopping knife.  (i just can’t imagine how I will feel when she can drive a car!)  I told her I would cut the onion, but she is an insistent little thing, and so I let her chop away.  I guess some lessons need to be learned the hard way!  Her eyes were stinging and the tears were flowing and she said, “we should wear goggles when chopping onions!”  With a quick google search, voila! we found found onion goggles and now have no more tears in the kitchen. 

no more tears while chopping onions

i still remember the warm fuzzy feeling i would get when I opened my lunch box to find a sweet message from my mom, handwritten on a napkin.  Now that I am a mom, I send along the same sweet nothings, but my favorite part is the note that comes back!  This very green lunch box was designed by a good friend of mine, and mother of two. Although the first round of production needed some fine tuning, it is a great idea - good for our environment - and I just love the the dry erase memo section for lunch notes. I just crack up at the comments from my kids…”mom, no more nutz pleez”, or “can i pleez by lunch?”  Since the message is gone with each new lunch that I pack, I decided to photograph some of my favorite messages to memorialize forever.