Last week one of the kids said, “Mom! You should write about this on your blog!” And I responded, “Do YOU want to write about it on my blog?”
They said sure.
This first blog is by Mary, telling the story of last week when we made homemade lemonade (which we only did because I did that dumb thing where I accidentally ordered five pounds of lemons instead of five individual lemons).
The lemonade was delicious, I included the recipe at the bottom of Mary’s post.
This is, I hope, the first of many posts by the kids.
Enjoy. X
This is David zesting a lemon.
I am putting sugar in.
We also squeezed the lemons.
It took a long time.
Anna helped.
When we were done we poured the squeezed lemons in.
Anna loved the lemonade!
It was a little bitter.
I loved it too!
We all did!
Homemade Lemonade
- 8 C water, divided
- 3/4 cup sugar
- zest of 2 lemons
- 1 1/2 cups fresh lemon juice (about 8 lemons)
- ice
Instructions
- Combine 3 cups of water, sugar and lemon zest in a saucepan. Bring to boil. Boil for 5 minutes.
- Remove pan from heat and allow to cool completely.
- In a large pitcher or jug, add the lemon juice and remaining 5 cups of water.
- Pour COOLED sugar/water/zest mixture through a colander and into the pitcher. The strainer will remove the lemon zest. Discard the lemon zest.
- Add ice and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. (If you can wait that long. WE COULD NOT WAIT!) Pour over ice and enjoy!
OMG!! I love this!!! My daughter wants to write like me, and I have pondered letting her do a blog post!! This turned out wonderful!!
KUDOS to Mary!!! I love your post!! Way to go Miss Kreiger! Please write more. And you wrote so descriptively that my mouth watered and my lips puckered while I read your words
What an adorable new type of bring your kids to work day. I love it.
This sounds so delicious! Keen to try making some with my kids!
And you say teaching from home isn’t going so well?! Looks like Mary has a bright blogging future!
I love that you added the kids pictures to the lemonade edit made the post more personable and honestly more likely to actually try the lemonade recipe.
I like the fact that you added the kids pictures into the actual post and watching them enjoyed it made me want to try the actual recipe more.
Theres nothing better than fresh lemonade! Can’t wait to make this with my son.
I love! Bookmarked it. We will try over the weekend!