1 gallon of Strawberries!

We headed out to College Run Farms for our second annual Strawberry Picking Adventure with friends. We ate lunch at their covered picnic area, we went out to the field & came back with a gallon basket that was busting at the seams and then enjoyed some of their fresh made strawberry ice cream together! 

This year was so beautiful- a little cloudy, nice breeze, no humidity, nice temperature. AND the littlest ones in our crew were old enough to participate this year! 

So...1 gallon of strawberries doesn't feel like that much, and at first doesn't look like that much...but after eating strawberries for a few days and barely making a dent.

So my oldest brought some to her teachers at preschool and then we picked recipes out of the little pamphlet that we picked up at College Run Farms to try out. 

celebration "card" book

I don't know about any of you out there, but finding cards is always a chore- they never say quite what I would like them too, and then of course, add in a price tag of $4-7 buck a piece... no thanks.

I can't remember where I first saw the premise for this idea, I think it was a pintrest or some random Facebook post about buying one card to sign every year.

Well, I took it one step further, I used to journal all.the.time. I don't as much anymore, but I thought of combining the idea of a journal with this idea of 1 card that you resign every year and, voila! Mother's Day Card Journal. (and Father's Day, Anniversary, birthdays, other celebrations...sky is really the limit!)

I have had a lot of luck in one of my favorite places...the Target Dollar Section.

We "archived" a couple of years, since I came across this idea after our first parent days & annivesaries. And right now admittedly there isn't much in them...we trace the kids hands, let them scribble a bit, but as they get older the plan is to allow them to write whatever they wish, and then I usually journal a bit of what we did that day and then attach a picture.

I think its a perfect keepsake!