Fall is most definitely in the air here in Tennessee. Leaves are falling, mornings are chilly and evenings are cool enough that no one wants to come inside until dark.
I do like the lazy days of summer. But fall has always been my favorite time of year. The boots, the scarves, pulling the pants out of storage, getting the fireplace going again, and catching our first falling leaf of the season. Yes I love fall.
My girls are embracing this change of season as well. Outside piano lessons this week, my little girl couldn’t stuff ENOUGH acorns into her tiny little purple pocket. Collecting acorns, and throwing them at the fallen sticks, kept us entertained for a full 30 minutes.
I can not, not say something about her wild hair! It was a tad windy. But more than anything, it was the nearing the end of the day and can’t convince her that she needs a hair cut. Welcome to age three! Which is coming very, very soon. Also, I’m savoring the fly away toddler hair.
She was convinced she could get MORE acorns into her miniature sized pocket. 
With our kitchen being renovated, eating outside in this weather is the perfect place for dinner. I am so very thankful for our friends who have taken us in, given us a quiet place to play, fed us snacks, made us soup, prepared our yogurt and boiled our eggs.
On our perfect impromptu day of embracing fall, our neighbors congregated in our backyard for dinner. They brought a crockpot of chili for the meat eaters, I made a spinach pizza in the toaster oven, grill cheese sandwiches on the panini maker and a fresh arugula salad from Farmer Megan with homemade goat cheese from our dairy CSA.
Together with some help from our friends, this is how we are managing life with no kitchen. Because of fall, it’s not so bad. 
As you can see, we are fully welcoming the convenience of disposable plates, bowls and cutlery while on this no kitchen venture. Part of me is enjoying this time where I’ve given myself to full permission to fill my freezer and refigerator with prepackaged (organic) convenince foods. And the clean up is a cinch!
Except when I have to wash the blender in the bathtub after making smoothies. That is a bummer and makes me thankful for paper plates.
But still….I’m SO looking forward to filling our new cabinet with real dishes. Until then, fall picnics it is!
