The "pumpkin patch"

About twice a year Paul and I will find that we have nothing planned on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon and we hardly know what to do with ourselves.  We've always been busy people and at one point we thought that having a baby might slow our life down a little but alas, it did not.  I do enjoy staying busy because it means we're out having fun - seeing family and friends, going on trips, participating in runs, etc - but there are so many things that I want to do and not always enough weekends to get them all done. 

One such thing was the pumpkin patch.  I wanted to take Jack to a pumpkin patch and let him run around in the field, get dirty, choose a pumpkin, take a hay ride and all the fun fall activities that a pumpkin patch has to offer.  I would of course have my camera and capture every moment...maybe even a family shot for the Christmas card??  That did not happen.  We have been looking for a house and recently found one that we thought we were going to buy.  So our only free October weekend was quickly filled up with packing our townhouse and figuring out how to find renters.  We ultimately decided not to purchase the house but now our only free weekend was over and we had missed our opportunity to go to the pumpkin patch!  Luckily I was raised by an amazing mother who never failed to make any situation a positive one.  So what did this Edler family do?  We went to the "pumpkin patch"!  Yes, I was the crazy lady with the camera at the local Fred Meyer positioning my kid among the pumpkins, making sure not to get the price sign in the photo.  But you know what?  Jack loved picking out a pumpkin and had no idea that he wasn't in a field or on a hay ride.  Maybe we'll go next year...