Something Uncomfortable: Day 136

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We are on Day 4 of our an adventure a day to keep the depression at bay excursions. I’ve got to tell you, it’s totally helping. And I’m totally doing stuff that qualifies as my Something Uncomfortable each day. It’s funny how God can use the things that terrify us to heal our souls.

It couldn't decide what color it wanted to be.

Earlier this week, our local apple orchard posted on Facebook about having the kids come out to pick blackberries. I called them yesterday to ask how we sign up. (Did you catch that? I made a phone call!) I made plans to be there at 9:00 this morning. We were sooooo excited!

When I woke up this morning, the reality of what we were about to do hit me… we were about to go stomping around in a field, pick berries and get dirty. Did I mention the heat? I put the grubbiest clothes we own on the kids and off we went. (We don’t really have grubby clothes… I’m a perfectionist who makes a killing selling my kids clothes at our garage sales. So I actually just put my least favorite items on them.)

When we got to the orchard, the sweet girl that worked there handed us our “buckets” (cut milk jugs that we tied around our waists), told us what to do and sent us on our way.

Looking down into my "bucket" - LOVE it!

We.had.a.blast! There weren’t an abundance of berries because of the drought. So we went digging… well, my daughter and our friend, Hamm, went digging deep into the bushes for the biggest berries. All the while, my son and I sweat like pigs at a luau and picked the berries that were on the edges.

When the sweat started to pool under my eyes, we called it a day. We had collected 5 pounds of berries, ruined the kids clothes and made a memory that we won’t soon forget. Because the half pound of berries that the kids ate in the field wasn’t filling enough, we bought a couple of sweet treats from their bakery and got a nice sugar high at the picnic table under the big tree next to our car. Amazing!

They look like they've been working on cars!

People, if you are not choosing to be uncomfortable… you are missing out!

  

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