We have been enjoying trips to our library lately and Aneliese has been loving this book, Jamberry, that we picked a few days ago. Nothing very deep, just a few words on each page about looking for berries and big bright pictures with something new to look at each time we read it. But at the back the author has a little blurb about picking berries with his grandparents and then eating them with cream and sugar. I like that part of the book so I read it to Aneliese. A couple of days ago, she told me that she would like to go pick berries and eat them with cream and sugar. So we did just that.
Raspberry picking in our back yard
Now in the book he says that they picked until their containers were full and ideally we would have done the same. However, the mosquitoes were so bad that Aneliese picked a few, ate them, took some from my bowl, ate them, and went in the house while I frantically picked just enough for us all to have some with one hand and slapped bugs with the other.
Berries and cream
After dinner we ate berries and cream together and oh just like the book promised, it was delightful!
the mosquitoes are still that bad? goodness!!
i love reading they way you “mama”, it’s beautiful. i’m going to head out to the library here to see if i can find the same book.
now, if only i can find a couple of raspberry bushes…:)
We love that book. When Rilla was tiny, she had just three books, and we read that one to her nearly every day for months. I love all the extra details in it.
So sweet! Jeremiah and I collect a few berries every morning on our walk. It seems there are a few new ripe ones (wild raspberries) every day, though never enough for a big haul.(I love that picture of her eating them. Her hair, the lighting…so cute)