It seems like forever since I wrote a blog post. The days are so busy that they are flying by at the speed of light! I need to find a sliver of time each day to blog about our life or I will not remember what we did by the end of the month.
We have a reward system in place to encourage good listening in school. If everybody has a good week of listening at school then we do a special activity on Friday afternoon. It has really helped the kids have something to work towards and look forward to each week. For the last two weeks we have gone apple picking as our good listening week reward.
The apple orchard that we have been visiting is fairly small but the kids love picking. We have to drag the kids kicking and screaming to the van when we have enough apples because they don't want to leave...ever! But there are only so many apples that one family needs each week!
I actually went out and bought a food mill since I make so much applesauce lately. It saves me so much time since I don't have to peel the apples ahead of time and cook them with the skins on. Then I run them through the food mill and it separates the skins! I can fill a 16 quart stockpot to the top with apples and make applesauce and it will be gone in 2 days....seriously!
Last week as we were leaving the apple orchard the owner asked if we would be back again next Friday! I guess that we are starting to develop a habit and the owner has started to notice! If the kids have a good week at school then I suspect that we will be eating applesauce again real soon!
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