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Sunday, December 5, 2010

A Nice Little Snack

Does it get any better than this? I just had to take a picture of my afternoon snack today. Homemade Milk Bread, homemade Pear Butter Preserves (mentioned in a previous post) and a nice cup of milky coffee...mmmm...delicious! I feel very Laura Ingalls right now and that makes me SO happy!

Apple Picking Time


Well, I know this post comes to you pretty far after the fact, but it's been...busy....since little Toots was born and the Hubby went back to work. Hard for me to get the essentials done, in fact showering is usually far down on my to do list and I'm a woman who loves her showers, let alone try to find time to post a blog or two. But I have a few minutes right now, since the Hubby is home and has a few minutes to hold Toots before he has to get to bed and Moo is (hopefully) fast on her way to dreamland as well. So I thought I'd post a little something about our first "family trip" to Riley's Apple Orchard. The Hubby has never been "picking" and actually kind of liked it. He really enjoyed seeing Moo getting excited about the whole thing. She had a blast, by the way. I think it was nice going alone so she could really have fun doing the picking. We went last year with friends and she thought it was kind of boring since all she wanted to do was play with the other kids. But this time she was REALLY into it. She picked an entire bucket,
and tried to start on a second, but we had to stop her... we just can't eat that many apples! We already had enough for a pie and a bunch of eating apples. If you can't tell, that is Toots under the blanket attached to the Hubby's chest. I was fresh out of the Hospital and not really up to hauling around a big ol' baby for the day. So Hubby manned up and donned the Bjorn - AND carried the diaper bag...my hero. All in all we had a great day. It was a lot of fun to do something all together as a family, even if little Toots slept for almost all of it. I think spending time with my loves is such a gift. We don't get to do it often enough, so when it happens, I just treasure each moment.