I'm Jody Moore and this is Better Than Happy, episode 219, Stages of Awakening.

This podcast is for people who know that living an extraordinary life is not easy or comfortable.

It's so much better than that.

This is Better Than Happy and I'm your host Jody Moore.

Hello everybody, welcome to episode 219.

How's it going?

How are your kids adjusting to school?

You got everybody settled?

You're packing lunches again?

Here's a little tip I figured out.

If you hate packing lunches and you can't figure out why because it doesn't seem like that big of a job,

but it really does get annoying.

Here's something that I figured out made packing lunches so much better.

Actually, I'm pretty spoiled now because last year my husband decided to start going to the gym early in the morning

and so he gets up and makes the lunches before he goes.

But before that, here's what I figured out.

For some reason, it's the gathering up of the kids' lunch boxes and then cleaning out the garbage

they didn't throw away from the day before and then packing out all up that makes packing lunches extra tedious.

So I don't do that part anymore.

I make the sandwich and get out the crackers and fruit and drink and whatever else is going to go in the lunch

and it goes in a little pile one for each child.

And their job is to find their lunch box and come along and clean it out and pack up their lunch before they leave for school.

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