A few pictures…

These are the laziest posts ever! Just some pictures. Enjoy. :)

drawing

A drawing Eve made for Lex. It is a tree and a flower and a person climbing a mountain. Even Eve wasn’t sure about the stuff in the middle. :)

mudroom

My mudroom. Easy (NOT!) come, easy go.

shoppers

This might be my last time shopping with these two for awhile. I think that’s probably a good thing.

runners

The store was pretty empty today so I let them be a little wild. They are full of wild these days!

on the bench

Waiting patiently while I check out at the grocery store. They wore themselves out.. for a minute or two!

flowers

We had many errands to run this morning, ending at the farm for our CSA pickup. The kids ran around (more wild!) and picked flowers from the pick-your-own flower patch they have. When we got home Eve took the job of arranging all the flowers in vases and watering them.

piano

While Eve did the flowers Lex checked out in the office for awhile. I went in to find that he was praticing the piano (the piano has become a saga for another post!) and he even wrote a song.

Canning Tomatoes

With the help of this great website I “put up” my first batch of tomatoes ever today. It was… umm… messier than I expected! They are setting and cooling now so I don’t know if they taste any good, but they look right. That counts, right?! :) I’m looking forward to lots of yummy soups with CSA veggies this winter!

peeling

Peeling tomatoes is easy, but messy! I even got tomato juice in my tea!

jarring

Jarring up the tomatoes. I used red, yellow, and orange ones, so they look very pretty. :)

done

All done. There is some separation, but the website says that’s normal. The one that looks like barely any tomatoes actually has just tomato juice in it. I figured I’d can the extra juice and see what happened!

Diamonds

Eve was telling Alan about small, tiny things at dinner tonight. She said, “as small as a diamond!”  Alan tells her that diamonds come in all different sizes so Eve grabs my hand and says, “See, as tiny as a diamond!” and points to my engagement ring!  We all had a good laugh, though I don’t think the kids really knew what we were laughing about.