Yesterday I canned applesauce pretty much by myself. Well, Kensi and Brons helped me and in the afternoon Candice stopped by to keep me company (thank you! Much needed). Then Misty came over to help after she got off work so I was not completely alone, but for a while I was flyin solo. That is the introduction to my day. Now I'll break it down for posterity's sake and so that Kensi and my unborn daughter might feel some bolstering when they attempt their first day of canning alone.
7:45-Go to walmart to pick up canning lids. They don't have them anymore.
8:00-Call Alea and ask her where she got hers that I borrowed when I canned with her and Dave.
8:15-Buy canning lids at Albertson's
8:30-10:00...Children arise, morning rituals, bribe them into happiness after their dad leaves for work.
10:15-Pick up canner and huge pot from Alea for my applesauce adventure.
*little side note here...I was excited for what was about to begin...back to the story.
11:00-Got my first batch of apples on the stove and cooking. Still excited. Have no idea what I've gotten myself into.
Pretty much it doesn't matter what happened after this because I could say it all in these words. I'm 30 weeks pregnant and I have two kids. WHAT THE HECK WAS I THINKING????? Just kidding, that was a little more dramatic than it should have been. But here's the point, I canned til about 6 and got 16 quarts of applesauce. Just so you know my mom would have gotten like 100... Bronson is teething. Kensi had pneumonia last week and is actually doing much better but we're still a little emotional, especially after thanksgiving day when she got her finger smashed/crushed in a bathroom door at a church building and had to go to the E.R. So basically, by time it was over I wasn't really that excited about canning anymore. Now we turn the time over to my super mom.
This is how her day would have gone.
4:30 A.M.-wake up, take care of everything that needs to be done for the day. Get beautiful, make all the meals for the day, put one in the freezer for next week, eat breakfast, read scriptures, pray.
5:00 A.M.-Start canning applesauce.
7:30 A.M.-Clean up the applesauce mess and start canning tomatoes.
Okay I'm exaggerating but one thing I am not kidding about, my mom gets a LOT done in a day. I really hope that I can somehow learn to be like her. She is incredible. I'm so glad she's my mom. And who knows...maybe someday my little girlies will grow up and feel just like I do right now: extremely inadequate but trying desperately to turn into a shadow of their momma. So anyway, thanks mom!! You're awesome. I really really hope that I grow up to be like you! Love you!!
