Yesterday, as I mentioned, we took the kids on a field trip. The night before, they didn’t know where we were going. I finally hinted, “It begins with T.”

Connor immediately flew into phonics mode: “T…T… Texas?”

“No,” I chuckled.

“Town Hall?” he asked.

You can’t blame him for trying.

We actually went to a nearby tomato farm! It was amazingly interesting. My husband taught the owner how to fly helicopters. Since the man new we were homeschoolers, he invited us out to watch part of the tomato harvest. Incredible!

The machines are amazing… There are computers on the “harvester” that can determine whether each chunk is red (a tomato,) green (an unripe tomato,) or black (a clod of dirt!) Only the red ones get placed on the conveyer belt that delivers them to the huge trailers (that EACH hold 46,000 POUNDS of tomatoes!!)

By the way, they only pay about $.03 for their roma tomatoes! I’m sure they sell them for more… Wish I could get them in the store for that price. They were delicious, too. We got to eat some, right off the ground. Yum!

On the flip side of all that fun, Grayson started coughing / sneezing / wheezing / gulping yesterday on the way to the farm… It got progressively worse, so it was off to the doctor this morning. After TWO breathing treatments and four prescription meds, they aren’t sure if it was an allergic reaction to something he ate OR an asthma attack.

Neither is particularly fun for a 14 month old.

We got sent home with a nebulizer. We go back in 2 weeks to hopefully figure it out a bit more… Pray for the little guy, ok?

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