Faith, Home, & Family
today a supper free day!
Can I do that? Yes, I can!
ha ha
There are only going to be 4 of us here for supper. 4 out of 7, that’s almost half. so the halfish amount of people that are here will get no supper.
Ok, ok, I’m not starving my family! I’m going to surprise the halfish people here with supper out at our local restaurant.
surprise, surprise, surprise….
Which would you rather be known by? I’d rather be known as the frugal one, not the cheap one.
What’s the difference?
Common Sense With Money has a great post explaining the difference.
is a busy day.
We spent 3 hours at church this morning. We helped give the fellowship hall a deep cleaning. Then we all ate lunch together. The others were still there when we left. They were going to keep on working. But we had to leave.
I had to stop at the Trade Store, which is like Goodwill, only its for a local ministry. I had to find some work pants for K who starts work on Thursday. Yeah1 I found 2 pairs! I’m so glad, since We’re fronting him the money!
We’re home for an hour or so, then we have to leave for piano. I also have to stop at the post office and mail a book for Paperback Swap. Have you tried this yet? I absolutely love it! Hey, if you go and sign up, use my email address as a referral, and after you list 10 books, I’ll get a credit along with you. My email is pcsmom @ gmail.com just remove the spaces. 🙂
For dinner tonight we’re having Italian Crockpot Chicken. Which is just chicken with Italian salad dressing cooked in the crockpot. lol I think I’m going to go put some rice in my smaller crockpot to cook. I’ve never done rice in the crockpot before. I’ll let you know how it comes out!
Has it really been this long since I last updated???
I’m shocked!
I totally didn’t mean to go so long.
Life keeps getting in the way of blogging time!
But, I have been making plans for post I want to do. While my hands were otherwise occupied.
And, wow!, have my hands been occupied!
Right now, I’m up to my knees in apples waiting to be proccessed. Literally!
I still have 4 boxes of apples in my kitchen waiting. I have been freezing, saucing, and dehydrating like crazy! I still have LOTS more to do!
I did manage to finish all the zucchini and yellow squash frozen and dehydrated.
I still have a few spaghetti squash to cook and freeze.
AND I have our whole pumpkin crop, which consists of 6 medium to large pumpkins waiting to be cooked and frozen.
And that’s just in the kitchen!
I’ll be back soon with lots of other interesting things!
Yep, I love the Olympics!!
now July ! How’d that happen??
I’m gearing up for another busy month. Our library has it’s summer reading program for the whole month of July. Twice a week we’ll go to the library for a program. The usually have something every day, but they said with the higher gas prices they would only do the programs twice a week this year. And since it takes me about 20 minutes to get to our county library, I’m happy. 🙂
So the kids are reading like crazy! They think they’re getting a break by taking off school for the whole month, but they are reading tons. So while their not doing their usual work, they are still learning. We won’t tell them, ok? 🙂
8-8-08
Does that date mean anything to you? Well, it should! lol The Olympics are starting! We always do a unit study on the Olympics, including history, geography of the host country. The kids think they are going back to school August 1. They are, just not the usual books! They are really excited about the Olympics this year. Since they are in China, we get to go on a field trip to a Chinese restaurant! lol
Our favorite chinese restaurant is now under new management, and reportedly not as good. bummer So I guess we’ll have to scout out a new one.
Well, I really should get back to work.
I’d rather be reading a book!
I was heard from, I was getting ready to go camping. We did, and we had a blast! The guys went around 7, and us girls didn’t get there until after 9.
We had so much fun! Visiting with everyone, watching the kids play, sitting around the fire, getting in on some of the games.
I lost a game of horse (basketball) to a 12 yo boy! But on the bright side, I outlasted 4 of my children!! hehehe
My second game of horse took place at 1 in the morning. With 1 other lady, and about 10 kids, the youngest being 5. Needless to say, this game went on for a couple of hours!And yes, yet again, I came in second. lol
I have never played basketball so well in my entire life!!!!
I think I discovered the key to playing basketball well. Playing at 1 in the morning! lol
By 3 a.m. 3 of the kids had gone to bed in the tents that were already set up when I got there. 🙂
We gave it up at 4, but I thought if it wouldn’t be better to just stay up at that point. H went to bed at 4, too, asking why she had to go to bed. lol
We woke up at 6 for breakfast prepared by some of the ladies in church. Eggs, bacon, biscuits, gravy, juice, milk, coffee.
That’s when I realized that it really would have been better to just stay up, instead of going to sleep! While I felt fine before I went to sleep, I felt horrible when I woke up! And for the rest of the day, too, even though I tried to sleep after we got home.
I even went so far as to tell D that if I ever tried to stay up until 4 again, to smack me!
One of the other women said yeah, we can do our socializing during the day. And I’m in TOTAL agreement!
This week has been totally crazy! Vacation Bible School started on Sunday, and ended last night. I’ll give more details when I get the pics off the camera. Tonight is the pool party for the kids. Well, and the adults, too! Should be fun, and relaxing! Let’s hope so, anyway!
Be back later, (or tomorrow) with pictures!
