Why are we so busy?

I thought summertime meant sitting around by the side of the pool, with no thought of what time it is and when you have to go anywhere. But as hard as I tried to get us a schedule free summer, I guess I failed. Part of the problem is that I am afraid I'm going to miss something fun, so I do EVERYTHING that is free or really cheap. They have free school lunch at several of the local elementary schools all summer long and we've been going to that. Every Tuesday evening the city has a children's entertainment series (comedians, jugglers, etc.) at a local park. We went to that tonight. Tomorrow morning is the dollar movie. So we're hitting all of the free and cheap stuff, which in the end will cost us because I'll have to fill up my tank with gas. So maybe I should just chill out at home for a couple of days, huh?

Also today u-pick opened up at Spooner Farms so we went and picked some strawberries. We had so much fun. I made about 12 quarts of jam tonight. Too bad I'm out of bread. Porter and Hayden stayed up late helping me. They weren't much help, but they were good company.



Here the kids are when we were just getting started. Pretty clean still.

Porter found a heart shaped one. Awwwww.


As long as Cooper had a continual stream of strawberries, he was happy. He just chilled out in the stroller for most of the time that we were picking.


After a while he got tired of the stroller and believe it or not, tired of eating strawberries. So I took him out and held him, but he wanted down, so I let him sit and crawl in the dirt (sixth child, remember?) He had a great time, but got a little dirty.


Turner had a lot of fun. At one point he picked up a strawberry, inspected it closely, and proclaimed that it looked like a rear end. Then he popped it in his mouth, chewed it up and said, "Hey, it tooted!" What a funny boy.


When we got our two flats semi full, we headed for home. I stopped at the grocery store and picked up some canning lids and turned on the jam factory tonight. It smells so good in here right now!