Aug. 20, 2008
Today's goal--mental accomplishment
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Well I woke up to this: So I figured we better start the day with math, handwriting and phonics (before breakfast) while waiting for daddy to come home..... The plan worked great yesterday-- but today-- for some reason my 6 year old forgot how to write??? I think it was more carelessness-- but whewww-- it was a doozey-- of a school day for HIM!
On to breakfast--- cold cereal-- didn't want too much of a mess in the kitchen to start with...
Hubby took a quick 1hour nap and I began chopping the onions and green peppers....and then my food processor broke!! Uggggghhh I do have a SMALL food chopper so I went with plan B...( now in hind sight I chopped enough for 5 dozen jars!!! ) Oh well
Then hubby and I for some reason didn't work as well together in the kitchen-- we had a lot of mixed ideas-- so it was a SLOW GO!! (yesterday we worked like clock work---) So I began processing the tomatoes (similar to when I froze em' in a previous post)--- then I kinda got in a funk.. I was really nervous to use my canner... it isn't even a pressure canner-- just a hot water bath canner--but it makes me VERY nervous- always does.... so when hubby suggested lunch (corn on the cob and BLTS) we went with it---
After lunch I mixed up a nice CHUNKY sauce with the green peppers, garlic, onion and tomatoes-- and hubby helped dip it (thru the funnel) into the jars-- I only had 9 Quart jars--the rest are pint...(oh well)...then it was NAP TIME!! When I woke up-- I just mustered all I had --and heated up the water in the canner-- and went for it-- it worked out FINE!!!
So while waiting for the 2 batches to seal (35 minutes each) I did up the dishes and then had a counter that looked like this:
So now my counters look much better-- a little like this:
Perfect for some BLT's!!
Ughhh- yeah-- still need a plan for all these cherry tomatoes we are getting!!!!
 WHAT YELLOW SQUASH??? I don't see anything....
 ( have a friend who is interested in picking some up on Friday-- thank YOU !!)And the peaches are all cut up-- will wait to see when hubby can bring home tomorrow and I will can these too-- now that I've conqured the CANNER!! (I might buy some more quart jars--as the pints will go TOO fast in this house).
 What is that box?? Hamburger Helper?? HOW DID THAT GET IN THERE????? The boys are in heaven-- Pizza, Hamburger Helper?? WHEWWWW--- can't wait to get back to NORMAL!!Well tomorrow will be a busy day--
Ultra sound-- ANOTHER ONE-- these Dr's are making me CRAZY
and then an OB appointment (35 weeks).....
The only real goal for food preservation will be peaches-- if we can get some more--- We'll see!
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