Raising My Girls

This weekend we took the girls up to the mountains to go apple-picking at one of our favorite orchards.  This orchard will allow you to pick your own apples and enjoy tons of activities for only three weekends in September.  So,if you don’t do it then, you’re out of luck.  We didn’t make it the first weekend, but we made sure to go this weekend.

The girls had a blast!  We went through a small museum, they played on the playground, we took a nature walk, they checked out some ponies, and the two younger girls milked a cow.  Turns out the 3yr old is a natural cow-milker.  LOL!

What always intrigues me each year we do this is how the girls don’t seem to “get” the concept of having an entire orchard at their disposal when picking apples.  They tend to hit the first trees they see and stay right there until our bag is full.  I keep trying to point out that there are rows and rows of trees–all covered with large, juicy apples–but they just don’t seem to get it.  Then, of course, after our bag is full they will see trees further back that have ginormous apples on then and they’ll complain that they should have gone back there to pick apples.  LOL!  Ah well, what do I know… I’m just the mom!

In the end, we left the orchard with a bushel of apples, two jars of apple jelly, three candied apples, and one jar of fresh honey.  YUM!  Now I just gotta use up all these apples over the next couple weeks so they don’t go bad.  No worries though.  I have tons of apple recipes that only get used during this time of the year.  Yesterday I made them an apple pizza (which is all gone right now) and something this week I’ll make some apple bread and muffins.  The two big girls took apples to school for snack today as well.  I think we’ll be okay.  LOL!

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