June Cleaver i.e. Susie Homemaker

Our annual family tradition

Today I felt like miss Susie homemaker. I don't at all mean this in a negative way, but was in the kitchen for practically the whole afternoon. When I got married to Doug he came from a home where everything was homemade. And it wasn't just homemade, but very good homemade. I on the otherhand had no clue how to cook ANYTHING. So I had a lot to live up to. I can't even begin to tell you how much experimenting I did when we were first married. Doug and I chuckle over all of the different things I "tried" to make that never turned out. Thank goodness with much practice I have turned out to be an okay cook. One of the things that Doug's mom makes is homemade jam. So, I of course decided to try and experiment with this 10 years ago. Still to this day make it each year. Now, that my kids have tasted this they won't eat anything but homemade jam. It was that time again since I was down to my last jar in the freezer. So I fulfilled my annual family tradition of making jam. Of course I had some little helpers as well. The biggest downfall was it does make your kitchen a complete disaster!



I was also proud of myself in that I was Ms. Fixit today. I fixed our toliet and am happy to say I can now flush the toliet without lifting up the lid. Hurray! I finished a couple loads of laundry, vaccumed my house (Jill I too love to have my house vacuumed), made the kids dinner and we even finished the evening with scriptures and family prayer. Wheew! I can't even believe it myself.

On a different note, Doug and I are trying to get our kids back into the early to bed early to rise mode. This so far has become quite challenging. This morning Doug told me to wake up the kids before 8am so they would go to bed before 10pm!! Yes, I did say 10pm. I hate when my kids are going to sleep the same time as us. That means no adult conversation or downtime. I am going a little crazy over this issue. Lets just say that I didn't have a very happy little girl this morning. Anyways, I set the alarm in Taylor's room for the morning so we will see how it goes. Only 10 more days until school starts (hey but whose counting)!