Chloe’s volunteering at our town’s Harvest Festival this afternoon. 
She was in charge of game station for little kids.

Chloe had her Girls Scout cooking class event at Sur La Table tonight. The girls made chopped salad with creamy parmesan dressing, Spaghetti and mini-meatballs in tomato sauce from scratch and chocolate gelato.

Apples were not that great this season…but it was still fun to come out for a family outing. Note to self: Don’t come here during Columbus weekend. Way too crowded.

Rain didn’t cancel today’s meet. They ran 1.8 miles in the rain.

Still smiling!

Came at 15.50 minutes.

My mom made us birthday breakfast : Seaweed soup with rice and some vegetable dishes

Tonight we celebrated his birthday with a bonfire, smores, and cakes in the backyard porch.

He wanted ramen for late night snack. His favorite food on earth that he’s not allowed to have…except for  special occasions such as tonight…;P

Chloe joined her school cross country team and today was her first meet. She ran 1.7 miles with 6th, 7th & 8th graders and came in 17th place out of approx. 45 runners. I think she came in 2nd amongst  6th graders. That is pretty good!

Birthday breakfast:Salad with smoked salmon, avocado and poached eggs

I made her apple cider donut “cake”

Photobombed by Chloe… carrying her slime…

Finished the day with a movie night just the two of us. We enjoyed watching Simple Favor. Happy birthday Mom! Words can’t express how thankful I am that you’re my mom. Love you!

A middle schooler and a 4th grader in the house!

Can’t forget a healthy breakfast.

We got up so early that she even had some reading time to calm her nerves.

We went paddle boarding in Franklin Lakes.

Chloe announced that she’s going to cooked for us this weekend and  she worked on a menu, jotting down a list of grocery list.

She wanted me out of the kitchen and out of her way, so she could do everything on her own. But she needed help so she hired a sous-chef named Andrew. 😉

They were working hard when I came back to the kitchen after being gone shopping with my mom.

My mom looking so amused.

Chloe said this was her invention, her own recipe. It was really really good!

She gave a very good introductory about her food,

then she bowed,

said Grace,

and served her food to everyone. Bravo!