Friday Happenings

Still eating the stevia

• Made breakfast ( scrambled eggs)
• starting the cooking down process for the tomatoes and stirred throughout the day
• made a triple batch of homemade laundry soap (that should last me a bit!)
• did three loads of laundry throughout the day, hung to dry
• jarred up the "sun-dried" tomatoes from last night
• sorted through and put away all the stuff I crammed into the dryer right before last weekends' party.  (What?  Isn't that what dryers in the summertime are FOR?!?)
• repaired a book
• worked on a puzzle with Adele'
• untangled yarn skeins that Judah tangled and hauled around the upstairs (thank you for that, Judah.)
• made lunch (leftover stew and crackers) and read Bible to children
• When children went down for rest time, I headed to the Granary to keep working in there.  Spent 2.5 hours out there- got a few cool weather things for a few of the children (totally not done.) and continued to organize.  The bins are now sorted by gender and in chronological ages/size.  The time got cut short when I heard Andrew call "Mama!  Judah is out of bed!" and I said "Well, tell him to get back INTO bed." to which he replied "I can't.  He is at the treehouse!"  Well then.  I guess rest time was over.
• Took kitchen garbage outside and replaced the bag.
• Got all the laundry from the line
• Brought in all the dried tomato dishes from yesterday (I washed them outside and left them to dry)
• Made snack for childer.
• Emptied all the vases around the house (all nine of them!) and then replaced them with a few fresh ones.  (I can sense that the end of the season of fresh (and abundant) flower vases scattering the house is drawing near.  sniff)
• Made pizza dough and set it to rise for supper-- It's pizza and a movie night after all!
• washed day dishes (and jars for canning) and set the canning pot on to boil
• Canned the spaghetti sauce.  Turned out to be 10 qts. canned with sauce left for the fridge and pizzas.
• Made supper (veggie pepperoni pizza and plain cheese pizza, carrot sticks and wheat berry salad.)  Watched family movie.  (Around the World in 80 Days)
• Did dishes (again.) 
• Tucked kiddos into bed
• vacuumed living room rugs
• folded laundry while Matt and I watched a "grown up" movie after the kids went to bed.  (Mrs. Brown)