Strawberry Picking

This week is spring break which for some people is a disruption in routine or a family holiday for others. For me it is simply another week to do the same things with my kids with one caveat, everything is BUSY and CROWDED! We started off this morning strawberry picking which is always so fun. The kids love the wide open spaces to run, the wagons to pull and the yummy berries to pick and eat. I told my kids today that these aren't your mommas strawberries. You see when i was little and would go strawberry picking with my family and David and Donna we had to get the strawberries off the ground. Lots of fun for us, mud and dirt a kids best friend. However in the days of hydroponic gardening you no longer have to bend down to the ground or squat. So much easier for us and the gardeners. Genius I say!

You will notice Jack is eating pretzels. Only my kids are cruising through the patch eating pretzels all the other kids where completely covered in red strawberry faces. Jack kept saying "they dirty mommy, you wash them first".