Right now I am working on/need to work on:
-finish cleaning out the garage. Noah helped me make HUGE progress this weekend. Yay Noah!
–label/send out pictures of Shanna. I never got around to doing the 9 month pictures and now I have 13 month pictures (I procrastinated and missed 12 months–whoops) sitting here. I’ll be shocked if they are done before she is 15 months old. Thank god our family tradition is to not do pictures again until 18 months.
-make jam for the first time!
-put together the storage stuff for the kitchen.
-put together the night stand.
-return the broken night stand to Ikea. (long stupid story here)
-figure out more decluttering/getting rid of stuff. I want us to fit comfortably in this house, damnit.
-deal with the meat in the fridge.
-go to laundry mat to wash the frickin comforter.
-upload pictures from the camera to picasa.
-do more laundry.
-take all the lovely poisonous chemicals in the garage to the recycling center.
-find a frickin electronics recycling place.
I hope that is it for this week. Oy. There is no way I will finish this all this week with my sweet, wonderful little helper. 🙂
I just made jam with my sister-in-law and another good friend…it came out AWESOME. We made a mixed berry, a bourbon peach, and a seedless raspberry. The pectin we used was a little different, and I think it was really a good thing..”Pomona universal pectin..it was specifically good for lower sugar recipes.
Yay! Thanks! I will look into it. 🙂
Do you have a jam recipe in mind? I did a small batch last summer and a bigger one this summer of this: http://www.recipejungle.com/recipe-00108263-Strawberry-Orange-Preserves.html . It’s *delicious* and very easy.
Thank you. I didn’t have a specific recipe in mind yet. I’m certainly very into my strawberries.
This is a good one, then. It doesn’t require pectin, and the oranges offset the sweetness of the amount of sugar required to get a good thick texture. (I doubled up the oranges for this batch, as they were very sweet oranges and one wasn’t giving it quite the tang I wanted.)
from Debs
My friend who worked in a restaurant warned me to be careful when making jam, because if you touch hot jam it sticks to you and is doesn’t shake or fall off. “napalm of the kitchen” he says. So have fun and be careful!
Re: from Debs
Yes. Also, there’s this stage when the jam mixture is boiling and is thick enough to spit droplets out around a several-foot range. It took a long time to clean up after the batch I made a couple of weeks ago, and I had several pink owies on my arms and hands that took a day or two to fade.
our family tradition is to not do pictures again until 18 months
you have a family tradition about when to have pictures?
I guess my family extended family has too many kids; I’m not aware of any pattern to their pictures…
Re: our family tradition is to not do pictures again until 18 months
We do pictures at 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months, 18 months, then at birthdays after that. I really like this tradition because it is pretty neat being able to see all the subtle little changes that happen so fast at this age. Snapshots don’t feel the same to me.
(It also helps that I never get around to making prints of snapshots so it’s like they don’t exist anyway.)
hey!
how come you did the “Meat” one first?
Freud would have a field day…
Cause the meat will spoil and nothing else will. 😛
“you’re blocking…”