School Days Start

It has been a very long week........
Quinn had his first day of school. He is now a very big boy attending the first grade. He will now eat lunch at school and stay till 3:35. Of course they had a half a day on Monday and no school on Friday and then no school on Monday again so we will have to give it a week or two and see what happens. Quinton has so far not really had any use for school. He has a great teacher this year who seems to be a science and health nut so hopefully he will get something useful out of this year.

Lauren is now doing three half days of preschool. She on the other hand loves school. She makes friends easy, she likes to color, write and listen to stories and she loves her teacher. So that leaves me with Henry, it’s just the two of us three days a week in the morning. Now I can get my grocery shopping done with just him. This may sound like it is not that big of a deal, but you try to go shopping with three little kids who all go different directions and never tell you where they are going.

Jason has been working on a project for the Boise Airport and they have been doing construction for the last few weeks. He has been working from sun up to sun down. This weekend was going to be his first day off and so he decided to get a really good case of food poisoning. That has been really fun but I do not recommend trying it.

It is also harvest season and I have canned peaches and dilly beans this week. I have two bushels of tomatoes in the garage waiting to be canned next. My garden is one of my favorite places to be. There is something about growing my own food then preserving it. It is such a great life skill to have and to know that I can provide for my family with out much help from the dreaded grocery store.
If you know anything about me you know that I frequent thrift store and garage sales. I have collected most of my canning equipment and jars from theses places. Also Jason and I have been switching out diet to little to no commercial processors. It has been a challenge and a lot of label reading. Now that I know what is good to eat it actually saves a lot of time at the store. There are now isles that I can skip completely. Also it protects me from the impulse buys, most which include the things we try to stay away from.
The trick is to keep your husband away from fast food that is poisoned.

To end the week we finished the inspection of a rental we have out in Emmett. Our renter has decided to move back to Alaska. We are done with the rental days and are going to put this property on the market. I always liked this house and it will be sad to see it go but we are really trying to focused on simplify our lives. It is a charming two-bedroom home that was built in 1926. It sits in the Williamson addition of Emmett and was actually Williamsons house. It has all the original hardwood floors, pulley windows and claw foot tub. There is also a one-bedroom mother-in-law house in the back. We just had them painted before the last tenant moved in. We would love to keep it but we just never find the time to give it the attention it needs.

Well I hear Henry beating on his older sister again so it is time to play referee. And I wonder why I can’t find anytime?