Canning

I am liking Corbin being in school. I like having a deadline in the morning to get up and get things done. I really like having a few hours with just the girls. It is a lot more calm generally around here without Corbin. Having one less body helps and girls and just different than boys too. At least for me my girls can sit and play quietly for a long time. Corbin, not so much unless he's playing a video game.

On Tuesday's I've been taking the girls to toddler and tots story time at the library closest to us. On Wednesday's I have started taking the girls to a library in Meridian for preschool story time. This one has a fun craft they can do at the end of story time. This library has a great kid section. The whole basement is for the kids. We've been twice and both times we've gone we've been there for about two hours. We drop off Corbin to go to school and we go to the library and then we leave the library in time to go and pick Corbin up from school. After the story and craft the girls happily play in the kid play room forever. They do the puzzles, play with the blocks and stuffed animals, and they have me read them more stories. It's fun. The worst part is getting Piper to leave. Gabby has had to step it up and be an extra big girl and be extra obedient and cooperative and Piper is having to learn to not have a freak out tantrum about every little thing, especially about leaving the library. It's a process. Ha!

Scott works for InRoads PSR and they are trying to get business in Emmett, ID. I have been wanting to go check out Emmett for quite sometime so the girls and I went with him Friday morning  because he had to drop off some bagels to a family medical office to try to butter, I mean bagel them up. It is a pretty little town. I get torn about whether or not I want to live in the country or live in the city. There are a lot of things I love about both. We are still underwater in our house so it's not a decision we need to make right now. It's just something I think about.

On our drive to Emmett I saw a sign for a neighborhood garage sale in the morning. I was so excited. I haven't seen any of those in the fall time, although it's brilliant. I got my friend to go with me and we went and checked it out early Saturday morning. There wasn't much. I bought a stack of nice kid puzzles on a stacker for $3 though. That was a bargain and a half! My friend bought some pillows to recover and decorate for Halloween. On our way home we decided to go get breakfast at Kneaders. We got their unlimited french toast breakfast which was amazing. By the way one serving was more than enough! They were two monstrously delicious pieces of french toast per plate. So good!

I spent some of Friday and most of Saturday canning pears and a few peaches. That is such a big job! Pears are a pain in the neck! I did 42 quarts of pears. I think that's my record for those. It takes forever to peel every pear, peaches are so great to blanch and peel in seconds. We didn't get very many peaches this year because the church farms were short handed on peaches and the only way to get peaches would be to pick for the cannery and then you could pick for yourself. I'm not exactly up to picking peaches for an hour 8 months pregnant, so we opted to order a few boxes of peaches from a guy in our ward. They were not nearly the bargain as the church farms though so we'll see how many quarts we get out of them.

I made this pin the eye ball on the monster poster for Piper's birthday and then forgot to do it. Oops. We did it last week instead.

Gabby leaves a trail of mess everywhere she goes. She loves getting out everything and playing with everything. She is a messy busy bee. I guess that just gives her lots of opportunities to learn to clean up. Notice Piper above, she is so happy to be watching a show on her pillow pet. Heaven.

I was making flash cards for Corbin and the girls were playing with them. Gabby would hold up a number and Piper would yell, "number!" (Cute little fairies).

So many hours!

Gabby crashed in her mess and I crashed for a few minutes while the pears were taking their steam bath.