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As I stated in my previous post, we went strawberry picking.  Here in Texas, strawberries are usually ready by the end of March but you are lucky if they are still there at the end of April.  It was a lot of fun today.  There was an abundance of strawberries which has not happened for a long time.  We were done so quickly that our plans were kind of messed up.  We persevered though.  After picking seven boxes (my mom did most of it), we had lunch.  The children spent some time feeding the goats.  Honey was looking forward to the horses but they were not there.  I know she was really disappointed.  She even brought apples to feed them.  Then we loaded up and headed to the Bluebonnet Cafe for some pie.  We try to go around 3 for pie happy hour, but we were finished way too early to do that.  The pies were delicious anyway.  

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As we were headed to my friend's house so we could caravan together, I came across a speed trap in our neighborhood.  The cops had set up their radar guns and were nailing all the drivers going over the school zone speed limit.  Our town made out like a bandit today.  There were cars coming around the curve straight into a ticket.  Luckily, I pay very close attention to my speed in the school zones.  I won't say how fast I drive otherwise.

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I made two strawberry pies when I arrived home.  One will go to my sister and one will stay here.  I have plans to make another one to share with the ballet moms and the teacher on Monday.  I need to buy more ingredients.  I want to go to the store tomorrow to pick up some no cook stuff to make freezer jam.  I think the kids will enjoy smashing the strawberries.    

Some of the kids were so funny.  My oldest put more in his stomach than the box.

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I think my parents enjoyed their first field trip with us.  The children really enjoyed having them with us.  

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We are having a garage sale on Saturday to finally clear out all of our extra stuff.  Well, most of the extra stuff.  I'm sure there's extra stuff that I still have not gone through.  The girls were all upset they wouldn't be there because of their ballet class, but when an invitation to a birthday party arrived on Tuesday, they forgot how upset they were.  

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New adventure awaits as Ben is slated to move on to another job.  Are we moving?  No.  But, Ben will have a new job starting this summer.  Stay tuned.  Things are still quite up in the air.

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April is Autism Awareness Month.  I have no posts planned.  I have writer's block.  Hope for an unblocking soon.

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