Strawberry Pickin

For years, I have wanted to take the boys strawberry pickin and each time I brought up the idea it was met with little enthusiasm.  On the first day of summer break, I didn’t ask, I told the crew to load up the car and we were heading out to the country.  :)

Needless to say the boys had a BLAST and we are planning on going back to pick blackberries in late June or July when they are ready.  I’m already dreaming about the blackberry cobbler we’ll be making with those. 

We went to Gieringer’s Orchard and it was such a great place.  It didn’t feel commercialized but like a real farm (because it is :)).

By the way, the berries were fantastic!

      

yummy

i love food. i think about food all the time. how much i'm eating, how much my boys aren't eating, how annoying it is that they are so gosh darn picky, planning weekly menus or attempting to plan weekly menus. i love trying new recipes.

we tried spinach lasagne last night. this is the recipe i somewhat followed. instead of making my own sauce, i just bought the spaghetti sauce we always use. also, i'm sure we used more cheese than the recipe calls for. jay was standing behind me and kept saying 'more cheese.'

verdict: "we are fixing this again. you can't even taste the spinach." - jay.

really

i am a mommy who works full time outside the home (in addition to my full time mommy job) and sometimes i just don't realize my own limitations.  in an effort to be more healthy and frugal i tempted to make my own tortillas tonight.  um ....really?  i maybe need to think that one out a little bit more.  not saying i won't ever try again, but tonight was definetly not the night to try.