I just finished a bowl of fresh raspberries with cream and sugar on it!! It doesn't get any better than that. I grew up in Fernie, B.C. and because of the cool climate we grew the biggest raspberries you've ever seen and we had the biggest patch. By the end of every summer we were so sick of eating raspberries but everytime I see a container of raspberries I wish I was back home. Our harvests per picking averaged about 13-19 gallons of raspberries, and that was every 3-4 days. Needless to say we had a tonne of raspberries to eat..... all the time. My mom was so good at preserving the extras as well. We would have raspberry jam and raspberry juice concentrate but mostly we just ate raspberries with cream and sugar with toast all summer long. I got a great deal on raspberries and bought a whole case and we are going to eat them all, just straight up raspberries, cream and sugar. Ahhhhh the memories.
My oldest had the opportunity to attend a University and College tour in Lethbridge for the past 3 days. With her return home this evening we had the lovely opportunity to discuss school options and life after high school. How did I get here?? I can't believe that I'm having this kind of a discussion with my 15 year old. What a wonderful evening. We talked about trying to decide what kind of courses you want to take and trying to find a school that matches what you are wanting to learn and study. I feels like it was only yesterday that I was trying to make these same decisions. What do I want to learn and where do I want to go? As the queen of my domain I have been moving forward in life raising kids and doing the day to day things that have to be done. All of a sudden time has caught up to me and we are discussing schools, post secondary education, life at college/university. We talked about people that we can ask questions about different career choices. We talked...
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