Is It Naptime Yet

Yesterday was a day of errands. I picked up the correct prescription of contacts and my glasses. Though I feel like one of the lenses is not quite at the right angle so things just look a little off.  I’m happy with my new frames and Jon calls them ‘geek chic’.
My errands went as ordered:

Picked up contacts.
Waited at Carolyn’s office while she took forever to run a “ten minute” errand and then we saw her for like ten minutes.
Went to Target.
Ate lunch with Anna.
Went to Jo Ann’s and spent money on the most perfect apron fabric.
Lastly, stopped by Costco to get glasses and buy food.

It was a fun day and the girls were relatively well behaved. Since Lilah will be in girls sizes I bought a few things on clearance and hopefully she’ll be able to wear them in the appropriate season and they won’t be too big next year.

Today we ran to Smith’s to pick up mason jars. Then onto Beth’s for class and then to Sam’s. We wanted to prepare and get the jars into the dishwasher to sterilize them for canning. While they ran through the dishwasher we went to ‘home on the range’ where Sis. Burns taught us a little about canning. They made some fabulous apple pie filling so we decided to make a batch with our apples, rather than making just applesauce.

After home on the Range Sam and I went to her house to start the canning process. We both worked on the apple sauce and then the pie filling doing different jobs and keeping one another company. I left her house a little before 6. She had all the dishes done, we had canned everything, and we had just one batch of jars to put into the steamer. I did a lot of prep work and she did a lot of cleaning.

My jars of homemade applesauce and apple pie filling are still at Sam’s house so the jars can cool, but from the taste test of left over applesauce the girls loved the final product.

It was fun canning, but is is definitely time intensive and not any cheaper than buying it at the store.
With being at Sam’s house the girls had lots of toys to play with and they acted and behaved wonderfully. We hardly noticed they were there. Britta was coming home from California with her grandparents, so sadly it was just my girls.

I picked up a pizza for dinner and now the girls are playing Go Fish with Jon and he’s trying to teach them not to show one another their cards.

Last night we played Domino’s, the Blake way, and Eden won two games, Lilah won one, and Jon won one of the four. I think it ironic, the youngest person, who had no game strategy, won the most games. Eden was doing a pretty good job matching the numbers on her own and saying pass when she couldn’t make a move. I don’t know if she was counting or just going by the colors, though I think it was a little of both.

Later this night… Eden fell asleep on the couch with me while I chatted with my sister, Jon fell asleep on our bed, and Lilah fell asleep on him.

I guess it was a long day for us all.