My Week

Okay, so the first half of the week wasn't so good, but I have to tell y'all that I got my butt in gear (with much thanks to my sweet husband for his encouragement) and got some stuff done.

I dehydrated 3 batches of apples because I found them on sale for 50 cents a pound. Still have 1 more batch to go.

I canned 23 pints of butter (ghee or clarified butter) last Saturday. Pretty cool. It keeps for a few years.

I canned 8 pints of Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Filling. I hope to use it to make some fruit crisp.

Get this, I actually got rid of that awful mutant stack of papers and clutter on my kitchen counter! Can you believe it!?! I guess the hardest part is to keep it from coming back though.

I put some hooks in my cleaning closet so I can actually hang up my broom and mop and stuff. Finally. That 5 minute project has been haunting me for 3 months.

I put a shoe organizer thing on the back of the door in our mud room so we can keep track of all those little things of everyone's. You know, little trinkets I find around the house, chapstick, etc. And a pocket for hair things I find around the living room and kitchen along with a brush and hair detangler so I can fix problems on the way out the door. Anyway, the House of Order gal said it's good for each person in the family to have a tray or pouch or something so that when you are cleaning a room and find people's belongings, you put them in their tray/pouch and they have to put them away. I'm excited about this.

Ooh, and I finished a super fun book I've been meaning to read for awhile now. The Ranger's Apprentice, book 1. Good read.

And I successfully made a corned beef and cabbage dinner tonight (in honor of the holiday), that the family raved about. That's always nice. And a pistachio pudding dessert which was pretty good, surprisingly. Tomorrow comes the yearly green eggs meal (Jeromy will be gone on the day of green, so we'll be having it a day early). Only this year, we'll be having our green egg gravy on green bread, thanks to Macey's. Can't wait!

So it sounds like I got a lot accomplished. I guess I did. But at the price of the house and kids. It took Jeromy and I most of the day on Saturday to get it looking good again. Thanks, hon.

So here's to this week! May it be just as productive, if not more!