Progress!!

Shew! It is 11:33 as I write this post and I'm waiting up patiently for the love of my life to return home from a VERY LONG WEEK of work! Working every other weekend is ROUGH! Causes me to get GRUMPY, but I have to keep myself in check and not COMPLAIN, as I know with this economy the way it is, I am forever grateful to my Heavenly Father for protecting our family from yet another job loss!!!! PRAISE JESUS!!

Today we had our foster license renewal meeting. It expires March (talk about saved by the bell!) and to renew there are about 15 or so forms that have to be filled out, signed, even a few notarized. NOT EASY! A home inspection has to be done again and CEU have to be submitted, CPR has to be up to date, physicals for Ben & I have to be done every three years, etc. SO MUCH MAINTENANCE, but again, not complaining, God has given us the most incredible miracles we could EVER ASK FOR! And we are SO GRATEFUL TO HIM FOR THIS!

Just finished making two more batches of applesauce! For those in my family reading this, didn't this tradition come from Granny!? I think it did. I remember making applesauce at Gpa & Gma Abuhl's house, but she cooked the apples down with the skin, then had this strainer that had a metal bar that rotated circularly and squished the apple puree out into a bowl. Mmmmm! So good! Such great memories! Anyways, I've been making some applesauce. My boys, meaning Benjamin, Laine and Ezra, can't get ENOUGH of the stuff. It only made 5-3 cup containers! :( I also decided I'd try to make cinnamon rolls from scratch. Mmmm! We'll see how they turn out! Again, the great thing about it is that my bread machine (THANK YOU MOM AND DAD BALTZLY) actually does all the mixing and first round of raising for you! In 90 minutes top. So I just throw the ingredients in and let the machine go! Then I have to finish them, but that's a huge part of it! :)

Just a random thought, I'm actually thinking about having a stand at our farmers' market next season! :) What do you think!? I would LOVE it! I think it would be SO MUCH FUN! I just have to come up with something "unique" to sell that's different than everything else at the farmers' market. I suppose I better GO to see what else is being sold! :) Ha! Anyway, just a thought! :)

Alright, well, this was a RANDOM e-mail, sorry!