Life Keeps Me Busy

 

 This month we have been busy. Busy with life and all that comes with a house full of kids. Thea has girls on the run 2 days a week, This is her sport running! She is training to run a 5k! She LOVES it she love the coaches and the girls on her team and loves running. At the end of Nov she will run her race 3.5 miles, after training for 12 weeks. I have to say I am impressed I don't really get running but she love love loves it. I can't wait to share about her race. We go to the library once a week for getting books and then the little one and I go for story time a one or twice a week, we have play dates and School for Thea, Donovan and preschool for Logan. so that is 3 drop off and pick ups most days. Thea and I have activity days a few times a month this is the 8-11 girls activity for our church. I am one of 4 leaders I am loving it and Thea loves going. I have PTO( parent group at the kids school) board meetings and meeting for every one meeting with different groups and meetings with the principle... so lots of meeting. But I am loving being the PTO president and being so involved in the school. I also have a few different woman groups from church or with friends for talking about faith to talking about being a mom to crafts, that I go to each month. Corey works each day, is a scout leader for the 11 boys at church once a week and is busy with hunting this month to. Our life is full and busy but I am loving being a mom of busy kids and having lots of friend and activity's of my own. Some how this month we found the time between running off to some activity and keeping house to do some canning. I canned 4lb of bean. Black, kidney and white bean, I use them so much for cooking but I don't want to pay $1.50 per can and dry bean are cheap so I just can them up so they are ready when I need them.

 I also canned Plums for the first time. A friend of mine had a 5 gallon bucket full and wasn't going to use them so she gave them to me. I made plum jam and plum syrup both are so good! I ended up with 23 jar from the plums.

Another friend gave me 3 huge bags of apples, that she had got from her in laws. So far I have canned about 1/3 of bag of apples and made 15 jars of applesauce, it should have been 17 but the boy ate a whole bunch right as I made it. I am going to do more applesauce some pie filling and some apple butter. Hopefully this week I can get it all done, fingers crossed. I love canning and leaning how to make my own things for so much cheaper.