Grapefruit

The only actual thing that I really craved while pregnant with both boys was grapefruit.  I would find myself at the grocery store with a 10 lb bag of grapefruits, cartons of grapefruit juice, and Fresca, then force myself to put away at least one of the beverages.  When we moved into our house, there was a big whisky barrel on our porch with a small grapefruit tree in it.  We planted the tree, pictured below as the scrawny tree in the corner, when we started our beds.  There’s me pregnant with Rush-

 

here’s Rush today-

and the grapefruit tree-

Last year it produced fruit for the first time, buckets of fruit which we called Miscellaneous Inedible Citrus.  This year, we have actual grapefruits!

December in Texas:  Sitting outside in your bloomers, covered in red beans and rice, eating grapefruit fresh off the tree.