Sunday, August 8, 2010

The Top Ten Things I Did This Week...

10.  I started a job!  Actually, I can barely call it that.  I work one night a week at a neighbor's home doing some light cleaning.  It is way too easy, and I got to chat with her and her daughter while I was there, so it hardly felt like work.  It came at the perfect time, and I feel so blessed to have gotten it.

9.  I canned & cooked up a storm!  Apricot nectar, apricots, Ami's famous BBQ Sauce, and fruit leather.  Thank goodness for sweet neighbors who give me their extra apricots :)

8.  I attended a canning class.  I learned so so much!  Like did you know that if you put 1/4 cup of vinegar in your canner your jars won't get that chaulky film on them?!  This seriously could revolutionize my canning experience.

7.  My sister and I organized my mom's food storage.  Actually, I'll rephrase that, my sister organized my mom's food storage while I corraled my kids and put together one of those shelf reliance shelves.  But I brought the label maker, so that counts for something right? :)  Originally, we were just going to get rid of the yucky food, but Jenni is ambitious, not to mention wonderful, and took it a bit further.  Since my mom was going to be away for a few days, we thought it would be the perfect time so as to surprise her when she got home.  But true to Jenni, by the time I got there, she had already been working around the clock, and the whole house was glistening.  I don't know how she did it all...she's amazing!  When Mom got home tonight, I could hear her smiling through the phone :)  Which is good, because if anyone deserves a smile, it's my mom.  She is amazing, and I just love her to pieces.

6.  My kids and I went to see my Grandma.  I've said it before, but I love love love my grandma.  She is one of my favorite people in the whole world.

5.  We had a water party!  My friend Angie, invited us over to her home and the kids played on her blow up waterslide (which by the way was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!)  I don't know how I got so blessed to have such wonderful friends.

4.  I got 3 slivers in my pointer finger that won't come out.  Ouch :(

3.  Bryan and I worked on Zerin's Wolf Badge with him.  Can I just tell you, I am really going to miss having my husband home?

2.  I found 5 baby artichokes in my garden yesterday!!!  I can almost taste the spinach artichoke dip now :)

1.  I rocked my baby to sleep one night.  This was a big deal for me because when I nurse and I hold my babies, they just get mad because all they want to do is nurse.  So when I totally lost my milk last week, I was trying to look for the positives, and then this happened!  It felt so good to just hold her and watch her sweet little sleeping face for a while.  I can hardly believe she is nearly 11 months old...it goes so fast people....so fast.

4 comments:

Angie said...

Wow, what a week! Thanks for coming over, it has been WAY too long! Also, thanks for the canning tip, I had no idea about the 1/4 of a cup of vinegar, that is amazing!

Jenny M said...

What fun! Except for the slivers, sorry :(
I didn't know that either about the vinegar. I miss you and Angie, and Kathryn too :)

Anna said...

How did you do your nectar??? Do you have a juicer? And that's a good tip about the vinegar!

Anonymous said...

I'm blown away with everything you do Tiffany!

You're amazing!