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And I\u2019m the Dad<\/a> is my personal blog. As a \u201cdad blogger\u201d since 2011, my blog has grown organically to over 12,000 followers on Tumblr.<\/p>

In 2012, I started putting notes in my son\u2019s lunchbox after I finished packing the food. There was a stack of index cards in a kitchen drawer, and I drew a silly little doodle to try to cheer him up, since he was going through a rough time at school. And when my daughter started school, I made them for her too. Some of them were interactive, requiring cutting or folding, but all of them started out as a plain 3″ x 5″ index card.<\/p>

Eventually, I started posting my lunchnotes online<\/a>, and they caught the attention of Mashable<\/a>, Laughing Squid<\/a>, Yummy Mummy Club<\/a>, Amy Poehler\u2019s Smart Girls, and others.  The Wrigley Company even sent me 43 packs of Extra Gum<\/a> just because they liked my lunchnotes.<\/p>

Shown here are some of the hundreds posted on the site. I\u2019ve only turned a few of the interactive lunchnotes into animated GIFs<\/a>, and those are low resolution due to Tumblr limits, but they tend to be my favorites.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And I\u2019m the Dad is my personal blog. As a \u201cdad blogger\u201d since 2011, my blog has grown organically to over 12,000 followers on Tumblr. In 2012, I started putting notes in my son\u2019s lunchbox after I finished packing the food. 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