-My peaches are done for another year! Hooray! They came on early this year, and that caused me (and my mother, I'm sure) a little bit of stress, but now they're done and I don't have to worry about them any more until next year. It's not that canning peaches is hard, I just hadn't put it into my schedule for this week, when it came up suddenly. But I think over all, I maneuvered it into my schedule quite nicely, and didn't have to drop a whole lot of what I'd already had planned. And yes, I realize the picture would have been prettier if I'd taken the bottles out of the boxes and done the picture that way, but I didn't.
Wednesday I took the kids up to Hooper to my mom's house, and we put up my peaches and her peaches. Our friend Susan Harrop came over too, and it was fun chatting with her, and learning her time saving tricks! Then on Thursday, my friend Wynter came over and I taught her how to do peaches. We had a fun day canning and chatting, while all our kids played. Two good days, filled with good company. I'll admit I'm tired though. But I have 24 quarts of beautiful peaches to show for my efforts.
-Lincoln's soccer season has started up again. He's doing so much better than last year. We can see a lot of improvement, which makes it fun. We've had three games so far, and Linc has scored twice. He's still most excited about the treat at the end though. :)
-We went up Hobble Creek Canyon and camped out with our homeschooling group last weekend. It was fun, and again the company was excellent. I do have to admit though, that I'm a little camped out for the year, so I think this is going to be our last camping trip.
-Aaron found a killer deal for an entertainment center on KSL. So our TV is now securely behind doors and out of the way until we need it. And I got two new book cases out of the deal. Win. win. Looks a lot better than the nursery dresser, hu?
-I started school with the kids this week. I wasn't going to officially start until after Labor Day, but my children seem to be so much better behaved when they have some structure in their lives. So having school during the mornings has actually been really nice. I switched up the way I was going devotional so make it a little more simple. Instead of a long list of small things to do, all we are doing is having a prayer, singing a song, and reading a story out of the Friend. We do that first. Then we have read aloud, where I read them a chapter out of whichever book we're reading (right now it's Wizard of Oz). Then the boys do a page from Handwriting Without Tears. Then Lincoln works on his 2 pages out of Explode the Code while I help Ivan do a cutting sheet. Then Ivan and Adelia go play, while I help Linc finish up Explode the Code and do two sections out of his Math U See book. Then we go downstairs and do a preschool activity, geared towards Ivan, but the other two join in as they want. This week our preschool activities have centered around Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
I feel like I've explained this unit a bunch of times already, so I am not going to do it again here. Next week we are doing letter A and reading about Johnny Appleseed and doing activities with apples. Should be fun. When the preschool activity is over, if it's not lunch time yet, the kids get to go have some free time and I work on house work. Then we have lunch and Ivan and Adelia go down for naps. During the first part of nap time Lincoln and I do a lesson out of Teach Your Child to Read, and then Mon-Thurs we do an exercise out of Writing With Ease. Then Linc is done with school for the day, and finishes his quiet time, and I do whatever I feel is the best use of my time at the moment. (Today it's writing this blog post.) And that's been school so far.
-Ivan is also doing a preschool co-op with some other families in our ward and I'm really excited about it.It wasn't something I was going to do at first, but then the thought just couldn't leave me alone, so I decided to go to the planning meeting and see what it was all about. When we got there it just felt right. All the other moms doing it seem super on top of it, and I think this is really going to be a good opportunity for Ivan to have something of his own. I'll be teaching once every 5th time, and there are only 5 kids total, so that seems totally do-able. Also, I don't have to stay every week. I just drop Ivan off at whomever's house, which will not only give Ivan an experience he needs, but it will give me a little bit of an easier time teaching Lincoln on those days, with only Adelia to entertain simultaneously.
-So August is done and I am ready for fall. Being hot makes me nauseated. Bring on the cool air, and long pants, and jackets, and pumpkin rolls, and apple cider, and hay rides, and Halloween, and Thanksgiving. And then let us have a very long, beautiful and glorious fall, because I don't like ice and snow and cold. Picky, aren't I?
1 comment:
Look at all those peaches! Could you email me the recipe you used? I've never actually canned fruit, I've just made jam.
That is a nice entertainment unit! What a great find. You are so amazing and focused when it comes to school.
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