Picking Blueberries

Last Thursday morning, Lucas and I headed out to the Blueberry patch for some serious blueberry pickin'. My expectations were extremely low because after all, picking a vat of blueberries is probably not on a toddler's MUST DO list. We got there, and the first thing I saw were signs stating, "WE HAVE POISON IVY." "Oh great," I thought. This really wasn't the day I wanted to determine whether or not my child was super sensitive to poison ive/oak. My dear hubby can LOOK at a picture of poison ivy and break out into hives...ugh...however, there was preventative lotion offered at the front, the berries were super cheap, so we took our chances! And another thing, I had really talked up the whole "berry picking experience," so if I didn't produce an "experience," Lucas was going to create his own "experience" in the form of a crazy toddler tantrum. Those of you with children KNOW what this experience is like--I'd rather go head-to-head with the Poison Ivy!

The berries were somewhat picked over, but we managed to get a pound or so--enough to make something and have some for munching. Luckily, we didn't have any issues with the poison ivy. "Thank you, Lord." I was really surprised at how much Lucas got into the whole idea of "berry picking." He really enjoyed LOOKING for the berries which were the right hue of blue. Seriously? He did a great job! His attention really held out much longer than I thought it would! How wonderful. So it was an overall enjoyable experience! When we got home, Lucas had a huge bowl full of fresh berries and wanted more! The boys loved blueberries...I never knew!
I took half of them and made wonderful blueberry muffins--"Thanks, Alton Brown." Dear hubby was so excited to have them for dessert and breakfast the next morning. It was a great excursion!