June 21, 2008

Straw & Berries

Yesterday my Mom and I took the girls to a farm to pick strawberries. I didn’t realize when my Mom asked us to go that she was going to pick 8 quarts of strawberries. I thought we were going more for the experience of it all.

We were given a row and my Mom and I decided we should each take a side. It was time to divvy up the girls. Big I wanted to go with my Mom and Lil C wanted to stay with me. I thought I was getting the short end of the stick on this one. I was wrong.

Lil C was a natural strawberry picker. She loved it. She kept saying, "Mommy, this is fun. I a having so much fun." Big I almost immediately got bored. She ran ahead in the row and picked whatever she could find, which wasn’t much. Meanwhile, Lil C would only pick perfect berries and she was quickly filling up her basket.

Since Big I had run so far ahead, my Mom hustled down the row to catch up with her and that’s when I heard my Mom yell back at me, "You are never going to believe this."

With Big I, I’m always afraid to guess. Things just happen to that girl. Tonight, she tripped while crossing through a parking lot and skidded on knees and hands. She’s a "Calamity Jane" if I ever saw one.

I saw my Mom going through her purse and throwing her head back laughing. Apparently, Big I got some straw in her Croc’s. She took her shoe off and was balancing her other foot on the edge of my Mom’s strawberry container. She doesn’t exactly have good balance.

The next thing you know, strawberries went flying through the air everywhere. My Mom dug out the piece of straw that started the whole string of unfortunate events, gave her shoe back to her, and started picking up her strawberries. The only problem was that when Big I put her shoe back on, there was a very large and ripe strawberry in it, which she obviously smooshed with her foot which meant that my Mom now had to clean up yet another mess.

Meanwhile, Lil C got tired and decided she’d just sit down in the middle of the row and wait for us to finish. I definitely got the better partner.