Our week in review

Monday: We worked on school in the morning. My friend Melissa called and wanted to know if I was interested in free tomatoes. YES! My tomatoes produced NOTHING this year. Not sure why... Anyway, she knew a farmer who was finished w/his tomato crop, and was planning to plow the field. He offered us all the free tomatoes we could pick. I ended up with about 6 bushels :)

Tuesday: Remember the tomatoes? We canned a bunch of them. Morgen and Hyrum washed, I blanched, and Walker and Morgen and I all peeled and quartered them. It took all day to do 8 quarts, mostly because of the helpers LOL. I was pretty proud of them, though.

Wednesday: We worked on Math, English, and Spelling. Hyrum got to cut out things that began with the letter "L." We also took some chrysanthemums [yellow] from our flower garden up to the cemetery. Even after I cut enough for Laura May, Myles, and my grandparents and great-grandparents, we still have over half the plant left! Those are some sturdy mums. We cleaned around the graves, and got shakes at Granny's before we drove home.

Thursday: School in the morning, and I went to the temple in the evening- kind of a peaceful day, which is good.

Friday: School in the morning again, then I started another batch of tomatoes. They are spoiling pretty quickly, because they were all so ripe to start with. I had Hyrum wash them for me, then Walker came in and started peeling them for me without me even asking! Wow. :) Oh, and Jared made it back from Chicago safely. Hooray!

Saturday: We drove down to Thanksgiving Point, packed a lunch, and wandered through the Farm Country. The kids love looking at the animals, and wanted to show Jared everything they liked from their last visit. We left so I could attend the General Women's Conference at my church- oh, I enjoyed that :).

Sunday: Church was peaceful and lifted my spirits. I talked to a lady at church who knows how to darn socks, and convinced her to come over to my house to teach me. So, I now know how to darn socks! And, I'm wearing the ones I darned ;). They don't look very pretty- I used a non-matching yarn- but they are warm, and I fixed the holes, and my darns have no lumps [the mark of a superior darn, I'm told]. And I taught Morgen how to knit. Well, I showed her how to cast on, and how to do a knit stitch. She's getting it, but needs me to remind her how it works. [p.s. I also finally learned where to look for an MP3 version of the scriptures, and am downloading it to my Ipod- instant spiritual lift]
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my favorites:

*learning something new and useful [darning]
*making my first batch of white chili this fall
*homemade bread to go with the chili
*children who help without me asking/begging/nagging them
*crisp, fall mornings
*free tomatoes!
*my ipod can do anything ;) [except the dishes]