I've not been posting lately, I know. It's been a whirlwindy time around these parts lately. For much of September, I was in planning stages of preparation for our vacation to Florida. Then we went to Florida. We came back on Saturday, only to find out that my sister was in the hospital with the delivery of her second child imminent. Her second child, who was scheduled to be due on October 24...Pllennnnty of time to get back from vacation, and settle back into our routine (ha- our routine?) before the new family member arrived, right?
Well, he was born on Sunday, October 4. Seven pounds 13 ounces, and completely healthy! Praise the Lord and once again so much for the doctor's predictions of due dates for our family. (All three of my kids were born between 2 to 3 weeks early, and all fully cooked and ready.)
There are photos posted of the baby and a whole huge set of photos from our trip posted on my Flickr.
This week we've taken off of our normal school schedule (just one more week - I'm glad I preplanned beginning our year in July, so that I have zero guilt over a three week fall break!) just to help things start to settle back down a bit. I'm getting vacation laundry done, the house put back in order (ideally I'd like that to happen before leaving for vacation, so that I can come back to an orderly house, but the flurry of packing activity never seems to allow that), and our minds back on school-y things. Even when we break, the "house rule" of no TV during our school hours of 10 to 4 remains, so the kids have been finding all kinds of fun things to get themselves into this week.
This afternoon I'm set to can up some apple pie in a jar. We went to the apple farm yesterday and I got three half bushel bags of Winesap apples, as well as a bag of Northern Spy and Ida Red. The winesaps will be used first for the pie filling, then I'll use what's left of those as well as the other two varieties to get some more sauce made. The 13 jars I made a couple weeks ago just won't hold us through the year! I made that mistake last year, and I ran out of applesauce by January. And since it was so tasty that I couldn't buy store bought applesauce anymore, I learned my lesson. This year, I'm canning as many jars as I can before the apples run out!
Final note of the day, and then I've got to get in there and get the apples cooking- I'm reading Hebrews in my morning reading time right now, and it's just striking me again how much I missed in that book. How could I have still been so beholden to the law, when Christ as the perfect high priest has come and fulfilled it? Thank you Lord for setting me free!
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