Five on Friday {8-27-21}

Happy Friday! We had an eventful weekend. Thursday night we drove to my parents’ house in Rhode Island. My nieces were there so the cousins got to all spend some time together! I have no idea why I didn’t realize a hurricane was coming though! Although we had planned to stay until Sunday, we ended up driving home Saturday afternoon.  Rhode Island got hit by Henri pretty hard, and my parents lost power early Sunday morning. Fortunately, they stayed in their condo in New York for several days. Here are five from this week:

1. Beach time – fortunately, we did get to the beach Friday morning.  It wasn’t too crowded and the kids had a great time.  

2. Reading – I love reading at the beach! I started reading One Last Stop until my daughter preferred it over the book she was reading, We Ride Upon Sticks by Quran Barry.  So, I am now reading her book and she is reading this one!

3. Cooking – this week we enjoyed Cherry Tomato Pasta All Vodka.

I also made Baked Farro with Summer Vegetables.  This was a bit time consuming to prep but was tasty!

And these Falafel-Spiced Chickpea Flatbreads are so quick and easy to make and so tasty!

4.  Watching – I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I binge watched the entire season of Cooking with Paris. It was bad but I had to keep watching! 

Up in Rhode Island we watched Vivo with my nieces.  It was a good movie that even my teens liked. 

5. Eating –  We tried this chorizo seitan that we found at Shoprite in the breakfast burritos I made for dinner one night. It added some great flavor. They also had a seitan bacon and a traditional seitan which we want to try.

We also made oven s’mores at home since we didn’t get a chance to make them in Rhode Island. They didn’t get the toasty brown color (we were too impatient to broil them for a little bit), but they were still VERY good!

6. Buying – I had Michael’s reward money that was expiring this week. I ended up buying these fall/winter planner stickers to decorate my planner.  I currently have this planner.  While I don’t decorate it much, I thought these would be fun for the busy days coming up!

7. Getting Ready for Back-to-School – The kids start school next week. Yesterday, I went through my son’s drawers with him. He has grown so much over the past year and is almost taller than me! So barely any of his clothes fit him. He could care less, but I need to get him some new clothes for the start of school. I’ve just given my daughter money and she’s made several mall trips with her friends to get her back-to-school clothes. And I still haven’t bought any school supplies. So these are top of my to-do list this upcoming week!

Sharing with Friday Favorites!  Have a great weekend!