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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

the joys of summer

One of the things this family will miss most when summer fades into fall is the abundance of inexpensive (relatively speaking, that is) fresh fruit! As the kids and I were eating our lunch today, Gray asked me why I only put four kinds of fruit in our salad.


I suppose I could have "embellished" a bit and told him I didn't want to overwhelm our tastebuds, but I was honest and told him that I got lazy. He said, "Well, we could have had a lot more kinds in there if not for that lazy streak. Let's make a list."

Make a list. Yep, he's my boy for sure! (I even had to forgive him the "lazy streak" remark when he brought up making a list!)

So, here's the list of fresh fruits in our house at this moment:
--cantaloupe
--honeydew
--watermelon
--green grapes
--cherries
--blueberries
--strawberries
--apples (both Granny Smiths and some red kind)
--clementines
--nectarines
--plums
And the ones most people call vegetables:
--tomatoes
--cherry tomatoes
--green peppers
--yellow peppers
--cucumbers

Yes, we do love our fruit. Rich and I still smile when we think back to when Gray was in kindergarten. Each kiddo had to write a sentence about what they were thankful for and, of course, draw a picture to go with it. When you walked down the hall outside Gray's classroom, you got to view lots of "I'm thankful for my family."s, a couple "I'm thankful for my dog.", an "I'm thankful for TV.", and Gray's "I'm thankful for fruit."

Yep, me too, sweetheart.

Saturday, March 08, 2008

randomosity

For the week of March 2:

*most enjoyable book read: Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
--Still need to do a review.

*most enjoyable movie watched: Scotland, PA
--Okay, so it was the only movie I watched, but I did enjoy it. Rich and I have been wanting to see this one again ever since we read MacBeth last fall with Annie. It's such a darkly humorous and quirky adaptation of MacBeth. Hey, I never claimed to have any sophistication.

*most enjoyable outdoor activity: sledding
--Last Sunday was the perfect day for sledding...we had about a foot of snow left, it was bright and sunny, and it wasn't too bitterly cold or windy.




*most interesting question I had to answer: "What is a brothel?"
--Posed by Annie. I was actually somewhat surprised she didn't know. I also had to explain to Gray what a "period" is.

*favorite photo taken: