Alex, Anna and I met up with some other mom's for a playgroup date at the apple orchard. It's been two years since we've gone apple picking. When Alex was a newborn, my family all got together for his baby blessing Labor Day weekend 2006. As part of the weekend festivities, we went apple picking - coming home with nearly 100 pounds of apples and 40 pounds of Asian pears. They were excellent and we used them to make all sorts of yummy recipes.
Today the little ones and I were not as ambitious. We held ourselves to only filling one bag with about 25 pounds of apples - Jonalicious, Fuji, Macoun and a few Jonagold. The apples are big and beautiful and delicious! All for $12.50/bag. After reading about Camie's applesauce, I'm tempted to head back with the whole family and try my hand a making applesauce, that is if I can get my hands on a free day and one of those magic applesauce machines.
First on my list of things to make is LaRee's Normal Apple Pie and our favorite Cider Pork Chops, and then I'm going to try making Sandra's apple cake. GR wants me to make a Dutch Apple Pie, but I need a recipe, so if anyone has a favorite recipe, please send it my way!
I took the camera, but the battery stayed on the kitchen counter charging ... so imagine a beautiful clear, crisp October day with a super cute Alex tasting each and every variety of apple we put in our bucket, and an alert little Anna strapped to my front in the sling enjoying the outing.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Monday, October 06, 2008
The NFL & Nickelodeon
Sunday nights, this time of year, mean football in this family. When GR and I first met I tried to fight his insistence on watching Sunday football games, with comments like, "if you can't watch the game reverently, it will have to be turned off" ... With some success on that front, Sunday afternoons and evenings you will always find a football game on at our house being followed to some degree or another.
A couple Sundays ago, a tired and very cranky Alex woke up from a less than complete nap and joined the family for dinner. While the kids ate dinner with GR in the dinning room, I was in the living room feeding Anna, and of course, a football game was on in background. The halftime announcers were updating everyone on the days highlights and at the mere mention of San Diego, little Alexander looses all interest in dinner and starts to cry and wail, "Diego! Watch Diego? Go, Diego, Go! Watch Diego!"
A couple Sundays ago, a tired and very cranky Alex woke up from a less than complete nap and joined the family for dinner. While the kids ate dinner with GR in the dinning room, I was in the living room feeding Anna, and of course, a football game was on in background. The halftime announcers were updating everyone on the days highlights and at the mere mention of San Diego, little Alexander looses all interest in dinner and starts to cry and wail, "Diego! Watch Diego? Go, Diego, Go! Watch Diego!"
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