Life Is Beautiful.

ALERT!

The following post contains words and/or photos pertaining to birth.

Consider yourself warned.

Now to the funny story:

Background--

Joe and I buy bushels upon bushels of apple "seconds" each fall.

This year, we made:

apple sauce

apple chips

apple fruit leather

and

apple pie filling.

It's the pie filling that's most pertinent to this story, you see.

We had processed enough pie filling for 12 pies

which we stored in our basement freezer,

(joe suggested we start a pie-of-the-month club)

but had enough leftover to make some sort of fresh baked good.

Last night, we decided to make an apple crisp

(which I burned)

but had enough topping left for another.

THIS IS WHERE THE STORY GETS GOOD.

We packaged up the crumble topping

and were wondering out loud what to do with it.

And this is a very important piece of information:

I thought we were talking about where to store the topping,

as we have two freezers these days.

JOE thought we were talking about how to EAT the topping.

Commit those facts to memory.

The following conversation ensued...

Joe: Well, we can put it on the pie filling.

Jen: OR we can just put it on top of the placenta.

You can see why Joe might have been a little bit confused.

And, for the record, after we sorted out the semantics,

we chose to put it on top of the placenta.

It made the most sense to keep the crumble upstairs, you see.

Here's proof

[both of the crumble, and that I have a messy freezer door]:

The crumble topping is on the bottom next to the pine nuts.

FURTHER CLARIFICATION:

This is not gross. I promise.

Repeat that to yourselves over, and over and over.

[I've gone ahead and googled "Uses of the placenta" for you.]

You're welcome. =)

The placenta is nothing short of amazing.

And since we had the chance to choose what happened to Blake's placenta,

we chose to keep it while we decided how to use it.

(We are going to plant it in the spring).

But for now, it's bunking up with the apple crisp topping in my freezer.

The end.