Each season is my favorite. Really, I can see the virtues of each one. While many joke that Oregon has two seasons; rainy and summer; I fully disagree. I base most memories on holidays, and I celebrate them all with wild abandon. I can tell you exactly what the weather is like on the 4th of July (It's been sunny for the last 10 years, I know because I have pictures of GiGi in sundresses every single year!), and that it usually doesn't start really raining until October 30th (again, loads of costume pictures covered up with raincoats!).
Here, in Oregon, or in my imagination, we get 4 beautiful seasons...and for now Fall is my favorite. Cool mornings, blue skies, orange and red leaves, raucous sunsets...that cozy smell in the air from wood stoves and warm pumpkin lattes. What's not to love?
Anyhow, the weather has very little to do with lunches, other then when I saw this darling leaf pasta it made me think of the blanket of red, yellow, orange and brown on our lawn...and a salad loaded with veggies.
The girls have a large serving of pasta salad, full of tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, carrots, onion and broccoli...plus a healthy amount of feta. They have watermelon cut into leaf shapes, and a side dish with some salami and organic chocolate milk...for a treat they have Halloween Pop Rocks and some marshmallows. (I'm going for Mom of the year with the pop rocks!)
For snack they both have Stretch Island Fruit Leather and a homemade granola bar.
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