Rattle Snakes, Peach Leather, and Puzzles

I spent a good part of an hour peeling and pureeing our fresh very small peaches in an effort to make fruit leather.  I baked the fruit puree for 8 hours at a very low temperature.  It was supposed to turn into soft fruit leather.  Well, it didn't turn out as expected (surprise, surprise).  Most of it turned into crispy peach chips.  However, I am going to try not to get discouraged.  I'm just going to keep trying.  One of these days I will be successful.  This was my first time trying to make homemade fruit leather.  I'll try again with plums tomorrow and see what happens.


Lizzie was at a friends house all day today.  We all missed her so much!  Especially Caitlyn.  Caitlyn and Lizzie are usually joined together at the hip.  Caitlyn and I spent some time together doing puzzles.  We did a total of 5. We were going to keep going but she decided that she was done with puzzles for the day.



Mason spent some time today reading a "Calvin and Hobbes" comic book.  I used to love reading those comic books when I was younger.


I did the cup game with Caitlyn and William today.  I put little treats underneath the cups.  Caitlyn has to read a sight word before eating the treat.  William had to identify a letter or number.  It's a simple little game that they absolutely love.


Jon is almost done with the entertainment center!  It looks absolutely gorgeous so far!  I'm so proud of him and in awe at his talent.  I can't believe he made this!  It's just adds one more thing to the long list of reasons why I love our forever home.  I hope we have another 50 years together in this home.  I can't imagine ever leaving it.  I want Jon and I to grow old together in this home.  I want my kids to be able to come back to this home after they grow up.  When the visit home, I want it to be a warm and welcoming place for them to come back to.  I can picture our grandchildren coming here to visit us.  I know that this house will be the perfect house for the grandchildren.  It will have a playground, a large barn, chickens, possibly a pony, lots of trees, etc.  An absolute dream for any child!


Lizzie and Caitlyn drew these pictures for me this morning.  I have the best daughters in the world!



I saw this rattlesnake on my run this morning!  It doesn't look that large in the picture, but it was a pretty big size!


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

2021 Summary

Image
 2021...What a year! Some Highlights: I read the Book of Mormon 4 times this year (one time I finished in 29 days!) We studied the Doctrine and Covenants for Come follow Me! Lizzie Started Highschool (and seminary)! William started Kindergarten! I got depressed being home without the kids...so I got my first job in 14 years! I was called to be the ward Young Women President in January. Jon is still serving in the Bishopric, this year as the 2nd Counselor. Bryce was ordained to the office of a Deacon and serves as the Deacon Quorum President. Jon broke his foot in March and had to have surgery. Our fruit trees produced no fruit this year, which was sad. Lizzie was extremely sick for about 2 months.  She had ovarian cysts, major constipation, and valley fever! We had the opportunity to listen to two General Conferences, which are my favorite holiday's. We went to Last Vegas after Christmas 2020, we went to Utah for Kynzlee's baptism, we went to Utah for the 4th of July holiday, ...
Read more

Feeling Awful

 I feel awful about something that I did today.  Well, something that I DIDN'T do.  I feel like the worst person in the world.  I feel like horrible.  I was prompted to do something and I ignored the prompting.  It's eating me up. It's short, so I'll explain it here. I went to Relief Society today.  The first time in about three years.  I sat with Jon's Mom.  I noticed a girl sitting in front of me who was sitting alone.  I chatted with her.  I had the thought to sit next to her so she wouldn't have to sit alone, but I didn't feel like I could leave Sandy.  I didn't want to make Sandy feel bad by leaving her so I ignored the prompting.  Then I went and accompanied a song on the piano.  While I was playing I had the thought, again, that I needed to sit next to this girl.  I decided that I would sit next to her on my way back instead of sitting next to Sandy.  However, as I walked back, someone else was sittin...
Read more

The Last of the Spring Break, 2019 Posts

Image
It's been a long 2 weeks!  It's been so wonderful though and I am really not ready for the kids to go back to school tomorrow.  I love having them home and I love having our freedom and no real responsibilities.  Summer couldn't come soon enough! We found out this week that Grandpa Duncan had a stroke.  We were all so sad.  We all fasted for him and have been praying every day for his recovery.  Even 7-year-old Mason, who has never fasted before, wanted to fast for Grandpa.  He dd so well and I was so proud of him!  We can hardly wait until June when we can visit Nana and Grandpa in person. I didn't realize it, but one of the days this week I did Walmart Pick-up (where I order things on-line and then the worker brings the groceries out to my car) and accidentally ordered A TON of these chocolate eggs!  They truly are the best chocolate egg in the world, so I'm not really complaining...but what in the world are we going to do with the...
Read more