We have had a busy week at my parent's house canning food. Of course I had to bring the team with me so it wasn't as productive as it could have been. We had to wait for some very stubborn pears to ripen. We were able to can 24 quarts of peaches, 18 pints of corn, 6 half pints of peach jelly, 12 half pints of salsa, 36 quarts of pears and 8 jars of pear jelly.
We were also able to take in the Hillmar Cheese Factory while we were in Central California. Unfortunately you can't tour the actual cheese factory because of those darn health codes. We got to watch a video and then then kids got to do and interactive ice cream activity. They got to shake jars of rock salt and ice with baggies of cream and sugar in them until it froze. I had to drink mine because I let sweet baby help and well, he didn't shake very well. It was still tasty though.
The team was happy at Nana and Papa's because they have a pool. They spent quite a bit of time in the water. Sweet baby couldn't wait to get in, but his idea of getting in the pool is just to walk off the side into the water. Needless to say it was exhausting to watch him in the pool. We tried to keep him inside most of them time and just let him go in the water once a day. Usually before bed as it was hot in his room and that helped cool him down.
Everyone is happy to be home again. It was so nice to come down the mountain into our beautiful valley. Sweet Baby yelled "Daddy" when we hit the driveway. He knows where he lives and who is there. He was so excited to be back in his house. The team was excited to be with daddy again. He wasn't with us this week as he had dragons to slay. They do love their daddy though. So after lots of kisses and tickles and loves everyone was off to bed and slept soundly in their own beds.
So we are back home and back to school planning. My goal was to have my lesson planned for the whole year before school started. At this point I will be happy to have the first month planned. If I only had one grade level to plan it was be easy, but with 3 to plan it is slow going trying to coordinate what everyone is learning. But school is scheduled to start 1 week from today, so I have to go get ink and finish printed and putting together lapbooks as well as going through all the curriculum books and writing my lesson plans.
For right now I am just happy to have a few moments to jump in a shower and put on some clean clothes.
Ta-Ta For Now.
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