Cons--the mosquitoes were HORRIBLE from the recent rains; it was hot; the kids were "done" with the experience when the box was not yet half-full.
Pros--we got a half-bushel of peaches which I turned into jam (my first time making it--yum!); we got out of the house and went somewhere new; the orchard workers gave us a ride in their golf/work cart back from the orchard to the office/house (this perked the kids right up--went from crying to smiling almost instantly :); and we ended the picking with a picnic on the lone picnic table that was sitting in the shade next to their office!
Thank goodness it ended with that picnic, because even though the mosquitoes were awful & the kids were crying by the end of the picking, they remember the experience as "fun"!
They both fell asleep on the way home--Ella wearing her new favorite "bracelets" (baby teething rings we found in our closet last week), & Caleb holding the empty package of dried fruit he'd been snacking on. These kids make me so happy :)
