Today’s homeschooling activity du jour? Apple picking!

We met up with some homeschooling friends at an apple orchard today to enjoy the blast of warm air we’ve had and to do a classic upstate NY fall activity – slip on rotting apples and sit on pumpkins.

Kids! Running!

All the varieties available for picking – some of which I’d never even heard of. Topaz, Fortune, Northern Spy? Come on, you’re just making these up.

On our way to pick some Crispins, Mama Appleseed’s fav!

I hope you’re gonna pay for that, kid.

New header anyone?

And of course no visit to the apple orchard would be complete without tripping through a pumpkin patch.

Mmmm I want pumpkin soup.

Apples picked, pumpkins sat – back to apple headquarters we go.

On the scale! Please note the cookies to the left of the scale and imagine that case holding two less cookies after this picture was taken. A yellow frosting with sprinkles and an M&M cookie to be exact. One guess on who got the M&M cookie.

Just a mere 11 1/2 lbs of apples – give me 3 days.

Dinner tonight was thrown together and made me realize two things:

1. It’s time to grocery shop
2. I really need to get better at meal planning

I made do with what I had on hand. A pile of steamed broccoli with parm and a hummus/veggie wrap in a whole wheat tortilla. It made the hunger pangs go away – good enough.

Thank you all for the congrats on the new house – I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that we’re buying a new house and will be moving in a month and a half.

Wait. Who? Us? We’re moving? When?!

This just went so fast! We’ve talked about moving from the suburbs to a city neighborhood for a few years now, I’m excited we’re really doing it! But I think I’m in disbelief too. I keep looking around thinking “we don’t have that much stuff… this won’t be so bad.”

Maybe disbelief isn’t the right word. Denial might be more accurate.