Productivitiy or Sweet Nectar of the Earth

Guess what it is not even noon and I may or may not be dressed yet but I have all ready been productive today look what I did ......

.... do you know what it is yet?

That's right I made strawberry freezer jam. Sooooo yummy!!

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So in case you want some freezer jam and have never made it before let me tell you. It is very easy to make. The recipe is inside the box of pectin (the stuff that makes it set up) use what ever brand you want, I've used both Sure-Jell and MPC. Today I used Sure-Jell but still experimented. I got a package of pectin for low sugar jam and made both a batch of low sugar jam and regular jam. They are setting up right now so after I taste both of them I will let you know which I liked better. I also bought way to much fruit so after I decided which I like better I think I will make another batch and when the peaches come on I think I will try the peach raspberry jam.

If you want to make your own all you need is strawberries, sugar, pectin and water. Also don't mash your strawberries by hand used the blender it is so much faster and easier and after you are done making your jam find a little bit more ambition and make some homemade bread to enjoy some of your Sweet Nectar of the Earth on. (If you really have no more ambition it is also really good on pancakes.)

Gideon's Arm

Okay so Wednesday morning right after ShiAnne left for school Gideon and I were hanging out in the office. I was talking to him and watching him. (I was not even on the computer.) He was sitting on the window seat/edge of the bookcase and he reached down to grab something. His foot slipped and he fell off the window seat. I tried to catch him but there was a chair between us and I couldn't get to him. The fall didn't look to bad but he was holding a pencil, I guess this made him land on his hand and arm funny. I picked him up to love him better but he wasn't getting better. I knew right away that this wasn't a regular reaction he kept telling me his arm was owie. I turned on little people for him to see if the distraction would help him for get about it. His pillow was on the couch on the side that made him lay on his sore arm he kept trying to lay down and then he would cry that his arm was owie. I moved the pillow to the other side and he lay down and fell asleep. At 9 in the morning this was not a good sign. Sometime when it is a serious energy you will go to sleep to escape the pain. He slept for about an hour. After he woke up as soon as he tried to use his arm again he started crying so I new it was time to call the doctors. The told us we could come right in.

At the doctors the physician assistant (PA) saw us instead of the doctor because it was lunch time. This was a disappointment because he hardly said anything to us the whole time. It was good thing I had gone through this before when ShiAnne was about 17 months old. Gideon had broken his arm and that is about all I would have known if I had kept asking him question that I only knew to ask from my experience with ShiAnne.

The PA put a cast on him. Gideon really didn't like him touching him so that was a fun experience. Good thing it was during lunch time and there weren't other little kids there to listen to him scream but as soon as we were back in the lobby he was okay.

He is doing fine now ans he will get the cast off on June 12. The day before we go to Lagoon. Yay I worked it like that.

Changed my View

Remember about a month ago when I posted pictures of the view from my front porch and there were deer playing in the field in front of our house, well now there are construction worker building a house in front of my house. Time for blinds on the front window.

We new this was coming and we know the people moving in they will be great neighbors

Shorts

All these shorts use to be pants. They are all pants that my girls managed to rip the knees out in this winter. So today I gathered them all up cut them hemmed them and turned them into shorts.

Disapponting News

When I went to my doctors appointment Wednesday and they could not find the baby's heartbeat so I spent Wednesday night in the hospital delivering a baby that was only 13-14 weeks along. It looks like I lost the baby right after my 13 week appointment. I had to be induced and actually deliver the baby. A week and a half earlier and it would have been a D and C but we were just to far along. I only had to dilate to a three. It was all done with cervical medicine and they said it was going to be more painful then I found it to be. I never needed any pain medicine. My heat hurt more then my body. Afterwards we actually got to see the baby. It was all there, only in teeny tiny miniature form, all its toes and fingers its mouth and nose. It was 4 inches long and weighed 19 grams or 0.6 of an once. It was pretty amazing. Physically I am doing fine and emotionally we will get there. We are really disappointed we were really looking forward to this baby but we know things will work out.