Five on Friday {10-1-21}

Hello Friday! It’s hard to believe that it’s already October 1st! I hope everyone had a great week. It’s been a super busy week. My daughter was sick Monday with a temperature. She missed two days of school and we took her for a COVID test, which was fortunately negative. We had multiple sport games this week, including both a soccer and field hockey game taking place yesterday afternoon…..which also happened to be my daughter’s high school back-to-school night. It was a LONG day for me! I believe it’s supposed to be a nice weekend. At this point though, I have no idea what we are doing! Here are five from this week:

1. Homecoming dress shopping – My daughter’s first Homecoming dance is coming up. She missed out last year due to COVID so she’s very excited about it. This weekend was all about dress shopping. She went shopping with her friends Saturday and didn’t find a dress that she liked in her size. When she went online to buy the dress she wanted, it was sold out. So Sunday was all about finding her a dress. We lucked out at Windsor at the Palisades Center. The store has affordable special occasion dresses and I’m glad that my daughter found one that she liked in her size! It was funny seeing all of the moms and daughters shopping for Homecoming dresses! I don’t remember Homecoming being such a big deal when I was in school.

2. Reading – This week I finished Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena. I was a bit disappointed with this thriller. I’ve read almost all of her books and I’ve found most of them to just be okay. I have to move on and not keep reading her books! There are just too many other books on my want to read list!

3. Cooking – This week my two “cooking” dinners included Mediterranean Braised Chickpea Rice Bowls.

And Spicy Peanut Udon Noodle Bowls (that I served on a plate, rather than a bowl!). Plus we had Tortellini Alfredo with garlic bread and salad and “Chick’n” sandwiches with fries one night.

4. Watching – This week my husband and I started watching a new, old season of Top Chef, season 16 Kentucky. We also watched the first episode of the new season of the Great British Baking Show, the newest episode of Only Murders in the Building and another episode of Ted Lasso.

5. Eating – Can you spend a day shopping at the mall and not get a pretzel?! We got pretzel bites to share and some pretty awful peach lemonade twister the kids picked out.