It was time for the Race for the Cure and so as we had done many times in the past, we began with the journey to Sam's Club for food and serving pieces and then the baking started (as always more than we could eat) with cookie sheets cleared to make room for more as apples were delivered and Suzanne made last minute arrangements on the phone while I finished my Popsicle and we then went to pick up Ben from Claire R.'s Bat Mitzvah and he showed off his new shirt while Ed modeled the new hair piece and then conferred with Sarah before putting the hair piece on Sarah. Meanwhile, I admired the Halloween paperweight that Suzanne had bought me and then Joel arrived and after saying good bye to the Straus family and the M&M's we went to Jonah's Bar Mitzvah reception where his grandmother held court and then prepared to take pictures of the Holmes and of Eric Vogt's father.

Back at home, the mixer was going full force and flour and chocolate chips were being assembled as we admired all of the apples and began work on the signage while admiring kisses and candies all in pick and a buffet set for fall ad the owl stood watch and we wondered if we could gift these books (among other things) as we admired the candy stocks.