So within the next hour or so we'll be saying goodbye to our two eldest daughters for the week. It's time for their annual trek to the Mountain House for a fun week with Grandma and Grandpa and two of their cousins. The excitement is palpable in our home and the table is loaded with the things they plan to cart along with them! Right now all three girls have headed out to see Buttercup one more time. I'm so relieved to report that as of right now she is eating again and seeming more normal, at least from Kali's regular and detailed reports. Kali stooped as low as spending a long time at my computer the other day "cheating!" She considers googling things cheating but she was not above doing that when desperate to find some cure for her dearly beloved pet. I think that google search had her putting vinegar in Buttercup's water. Who knows what has helped, but I'm glad she is heading off for a fun week without too much worry on her mind. I imagine she will ask about Buttercup first on all our phone calls! She admitted to me today that if Buttercup had not show any improvement she was uncertain whether she was going to have been able to leave her. So glad she won't miss out on the fun week ahead!
Recent days have been much of the same - harvesting, chopping, canning, freezing, nursing, changing diapers, making food, feeding kiddos, fitting in office work in all the cracks, etc... But a few things spiced up life some. A very minor cold seems to be making its way through the family, landing most heavily on our littlest (who sleeps horribly if anything disrupts her equilibrium)! So she was already contending with some new 2 year old molars and this cold made it such that she and I have had a few "rough" nights again - and not sure how I did it for weeks straight in earlier months. Eager to clock in more hours in a row again! In the meantime, we are freezing lots of beans, canning pickles every few days, and watching eagerly for the first tomatoes to ripen. The first Sweet Norita is sitting on the counter - uncertain if we'll let ourselves eat it or save the first one for seed...
We also enjoyed a short but sweet visit from my cousin, his wife and their two children. They had never come to our place before and so it was fun to show them around, have the kids get time together (long enough to be warming up by the end!), and we even had the excitement of a big storm rolling through taking out our power right before I was about to make dinner. Thankfully the propane burner is all set up on the front walk for canning so we just moved it onto the porch and fried up our green bean, cheese, rice, eggs and herb patties outside!
Terah's enjoying either wearing lots of clothes she picks out from her drawers or none. We are finding when she wears none that she seems more or less potty trained (without us having done any training). She still doesn't have the seasons quite right as she'll want fuzzy socks and slippers when the rest of us are sweating. She loves whenever daddy is working out on the concrete pad - threshing seems to be especially intriguing as she will never want to come in with me if he is out there working. I still stand by the fact that Jason is one "hard workin' daddy" and like that all our girls are very interested in what's he's into around the place!
The girls and I finally got around to meandering down the lane to weed around the free little library the other night. We did some rearranging and adding new titles, removed the proselytizing literature someone had dumped in there (grr) and enjoyed seeing that there has definitely been some use of it. Fun!
And then today's fun has been MORE applesauce. Some neighbor friends let us know yesterday that they had a tree dropping apples that they weren't going to use. We are such suckers for that kind of thing. :) So we had fun going over and collecting about two bushels that Jason and I did up today - with bits of help from the two older girls. It was only about half of what Mom and I did the other day, but was still well worth doing and fun for Jason and I to be side by side at the sink for at least a little stint of working together!To close I'll just mention one (very small) thing that I'm getting kicks out of recently and that has changed the kitchen flow for me (in a great way). I have discovered how handy it is to have a "pig slop bucket" under the table in the kitchen! I'm putting cheese whey in there and all our kitchen scraps that they will enjoy. When it's full, we take it to the shed for whenever they need another feeding. It's really fun, it doesn't smell at all, and it saves me trips to the compost and the shed. I'm pleased!
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