Mom Tip #2 Breakfast Station
Life as a stay at home parent is a full-time job all the time!
From the cleaning to arguing and explain to your toddler on why them eating their vegetables is important, and with those two things on top of other household chores and work you have to complete throughout the day you can become totally exhausted barely having enough energy to make dinner or have a little mommy or dad time.
I’ve been to the point of exhaustion when I was tired even after waking up from the night before and I know I can't be the only one who just want to crawl back into bed some mornings and bury my head deep under my blankets and pillows just to catch a few extra z's.
But when the sun rises and mommy duty calls and it's time to be a grown up and get to work for the day and again explain for the ten thousandth time on why eating broccoli is good for their body. I tried the whole waking up early before them thing but I'm just simply not a morning person and for some that may work but even if you are a morning person the idea of taking it easy in the morning is something all parents and a lot of people can relate too especially when you have lil early risers. By creating a little breakfast or even lunch area for your children to be able to make their own food the next day is a great idea and exactly what I did!
Having a breakfast station for me means a little extra sleep some mornings, or a little extra time spent editing videos or turning homework in for myself. For my children they have a variety of breakfast items to choose from and it teaches the kids some independency.
Everything that's in the breakfast station is super easy for them to make and is a grab and go! They even have spoons and paper towels in milk jars available for them to grab when they need them.
They have everything from muffins, hot cereal/oatmeal, cold cereal and fruit to pick from.
Jeremiah my 4 year old is the only one not aloud or or even
know how to use the microwave right now so his big brother Royce will help but even Jeremiah can come and make his own breakfast with this very functional grab and go breakfast station!
Everything I used to store the food are items Iv'e already owned minus these cereal containers you see here right below and these were purchased not so long ago from Sam's Club for only 12.98$ And a great deal it is, they can store a lot, and have a flexi made top for easy opening while giving you a tight seal helping your food to stay nice and fresh! You can also check out Amazon.com for more similar to them!
Rubber Maid Containers- https://www.samsclub.com/p/rubbermaid-cereal-keeper-red-in-club-3pk/prod17380367
My children and I just absolutely love these easy to use and clean cereal dispensers, and I plan on buying 2 more to hold more cereal and snacks!
I store all extra food at the top so when they run out or start to run low on options I can just pull it down and easily replace food as needed!
I hope you all enjoyed reading this blog and it helps you to create and make your own breakfast station!
I love your breakfast station! So organized 😀