We bought our home in the late fall of 2017, and moved in by early winter. So, we were pleasantly surprised the next fall, when we saw apples growing on one of the trees in the front yard.

My husband immediately said that they weren’t good apples to eat. Since he said it so matter-of-fact, I took his word for it. Three years later (present day), I decided to enlist the twin’s help to pick up the fallen apples off of the ground so Erik could cut the grass. BUT… to keep them from eating the apples (some which had worms or bugs in them from the ground), I told them they were poisonous. The cautionary tale of the Snow White fairy tale was fresh in their minds, so were determined to heed the warning.

Gloved up, all three of us bagged up the apples and I began to think, it would be so nice to be able to eat our own apples from our tree. Even our neighbors had remarked about eating the apples. I gave them Erik’s warning that they were bad. But, then, like Eve, I began to question my man.

“Why shouldn’t I eat the fruit on the tree?”

“How does Erik know this?”

I decided we would try the apples, and I would show the kids reaction as I taste-tested our “poisonous” apples. Their reaction was hilarious and Erik was wrong. There’s nothing wrong with the apples. They were actually quite tasty.

Click on the video below to see how it all went down.

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