{"id":1259,"date":"2017-03-08T23:39:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2017-03-08T23:39:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:39:54","slug":"lunchbox-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"Lunchbox Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been quite a while<\/a> since I blogged about the lunchbox notes I doodle for my girls. About three years ago, inspired by some creative dads, I tried my hand at creating illustrated lunchbox notes. These days, the girls don’t actually take lunchboxes to school anymore, since both are on the school lunch plan.\u00a0 I have to slip the notes into various binders and books in the girls’ backpacks so they find them during their school day. The notes are a way for me to tell them (when I’m not around!) that I love them and I’m thinking about them. The girls love them, and they have saved all the lunchbox notes I’ve made them in little photo albums!<\/p>\n

I haven’t made as many lunchbox notes for the girls this school year, in part because of the lack of lunchboxes, in part because my school nights are a little busier these days. (Two-hour phone calls to my girlfriend after our kids go to bed are pretty common occurrences these days! I haven’t talked on the phone this much since I was a teenager…) But I still manage to doodle something for the girls a couple of times a month. Below are some of the notes I’ve sent in this year.<\/p>\n

The girls binged one of the newer Scooby-Doo series back in September, so that led to a couple of notes starring the Mystery Inc. gang:<\/p>\n

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The thirteen-year-old spent almost a week at a camp in North Carolina with her seventh grade class last fall. She was super nervous before she went, but she had a blast. I was really proud of her for stepping so far outside her comfort zone!<\/p>\n

In January, after finishing Howl’s Moving Castle<\/em> during family reading, we watched the Miyazaki movie adaptation. The girls’ favorite characters, Turniphead and Calcifer, made an appearnce on the next day’s lunchbox notes:<\/p>\n

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(More on that film competition in a future post! Let’s just say I’m really proud of my little filmmaker!)<\/p>\n

Also in January, we read Bone: Coda<\/em>, the short sequel to Jeff Smith’s amazing Bone<\/em> comic book series. This wasn’t the first time Fone Bone and his friends showed up on our lunchbox notes!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>My nine-year-old really likes it when I come up with my own characters. Last month, she made a request: a turtle in a top hat. I went with a Mandrake the Magician look for the turtle, which led me to go with a Flash Gordon-inspired mouse for the other lunchbox note:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>(There’s a fair bit of Mouse Guard in that last one, too!)<\/p>\n

I’ll finish with a series I did in the fall leading up to Halloween. I wanted to challenge myself a little, so I tried to see what I could do with some typical Halloween monsters.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>I like how these turned out. And so did the nine-year-old!<\/p>\n

There’s still plenty of time left this school year for more lunchbox notes. We finished Phineas and Ferb recently… maybe it’s time for Perry the Platypus to make an appearance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been quite a while since I blogged about the lunchbox notes I doodle for my girls. About three years ago, inspired by some creative dads, I tried my hand at creating illustrated lunchbox notes. These days, the girls don’t actually take lunchboxes to school anymore, since both are on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[161,134,28],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-lunchbox-notes","tag-school","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}