I always welcome ways to make every day life a little easier. School-time is a particularly stressful time for me, at least in the mornings. Most mornings I don't even get to brush my hair and teeth. I'll throw on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt or my workout clothes just to get the kids to school.
I realized over the weekend that I lose a ton of time packing lunches in the mornings. My solution seems very obvious. I'm going to assume that most people would have thought of this sooner, but I felt like I had discovered the secrets of the universe when it dawned on me.
Why not pack lunches on Sunday? My kids don't take a regular lunch box to school, so I buy brown bags in bulk. I put a name on the front, throw the chips, gummies, and whatever they are taking for snack into the bag. I store the bags in an unused cabinet until the morning they are needed.
It seems very simple: pack the lunches before-hand, add a sandwich that morning, and voila. It also seems like it wouldn't save too much time, but it shaves off about 5-10 minutes of lunch packing, which can make all the difference if I oversleep (been happening more this week), or if I'm just moving kind of slow. Perhaps it's all in my head, but it gives me a sense of having my crap together. I feel like I'm starting out a step ahead, having most of it done ahead of time.
How do you cut down on stresses in the mornings before school/work? I'd love to hear more suggestions!
~Amanda~
{I'm thinking of doing a little section called "Little Bits" where I just add little blurbs about my time-saving ideas, or even just a little "Hi". Not an all out post, but a quick stop-in. What do you think? I'm trying to get to a point where I'm posting at least once a week. I have big plans, lets just hope I have the umph to follow through!!}
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