Wow, I can't believe it's been nearly a year since my last post!! Where does the time go?

So...for his birthday cake, DH had one request: that it be a model of a nuclear reactor, with Pocky for the fuel rods! Way to appeal to both my love of cooking and my interest in engineering, hon!

So here is what I did: I modeled it loosely after a PWR ( ( Read more... )

I haven't had time to post in ages, school's just been too busy. And next quarter will be even harder! Yay!

I made this bento for DS's lunch today: 

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This is the first chance I've had to write a post in a while! I've had these pictures, but just no time to do anything with them.

DH made gyu-don for dinner the other night, and he put DS's in his bento box to encourage him to try it:


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So it's shaping up to be a busy quarter! I have Engineering Physics + Lab, Organic Chemistry + Lab, and 3rd quarter Calculus. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are all crazy-busy, and I'm planning on packing bentos those days. I'll try to take photos of them, but it depends on how much I oversleep! Thursday and Friday aren't so bad, though sometimes I ( Read more... )

Classes started Monday--it's going to be pretty tiring, I think. I didn't have time to make a bento the first day, and I didn't have time to take pics of yesterday's bento. However, here is today's bento:


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Grandma and cousins came to visit DS today. Today's bento:


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DS is going through one of those between-growth-spurt phases where he eats hardly anything, so in order to help pique his appetite, I put his dinner in a bento box.


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Today, I made bentos for DH and myself, as well as for DS. The bento box DH ordered for me came a few days ago, and this is the first chance I've had to use it. It depicts a maneki neko, a lucky cat, on the lid--I love maneki neko!


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Today's bento:


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DH had last week off to work on some remodeling, but we did some fun things, too--like visit the aquarium. DS loved the fish and sharks and sea stars! He's still talking about it. And naturally, every single orange and white fish was "Nemo!" to him, and all the brilliant blue ones were "Dory."

Today he requested "green 'sghetti" for his bento.


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