1. that shawn gave me "permission" to not preserve food anymore. i've been preserving food since august and i'm soooo tired of it! we had an abundance of produce from our garden and i've been able to scavenge up some more free goods. i thought i was almost done with processing it all but, unfortunately, our laundry room isn't quite cold enough and so all the apples that i had carefully separated and boxed to eat throughout the winter have now gone soft and something needs to be done with them. also, my last batch of tomatoes are ready to be processed and i've got a lot of squash and pumpkins in the laundry room that will *hopefully* keep until we eat it all. i really would just like to kick back and enjoy my last month of having just one child. argh! last night i was trying to figure out what to do with it all and when to do it. shawn spoke up and said that the apples would have gone to the deer if we hadn't picked them all, so we could put them outside for the deer. i decided that today i'm going to process food like crazy and everything that i don't get done we'll either compost or feed the deer with. i was feeling quite overwhelmed with it all and it was nice to have "permission" to let some of it go.
the pictures below are the tomatoes that came from my garden. the ones on the counter i turned into salsa, 2/3's of the ones in the pantry i turned into crushed tomatoes and the final 1/3 is finally ripe and i think i'm just going to make them into tomato sauce, as that's the easiest.
some of the things that i've processed and preserved this fall are: basil, spinach, zucchini, tomatoes, beets, cherries, apples, peaches, pumpkins, squash, chillies, fennel...
2. that i'm now seeing my midwifes every week. that means i'm 37 weeks along. only 3 more to go!!! yay!!!!!
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