Friday Night? Really?

Honestly, I am not sure where the week went. On Tuesday I posted about Miss Pear's upcoming cardiology appointment here and sent out a more detailed prayer request to our church and friends, and somehow that made it all to real again, and it was overwhelming. It is better now, still weird, but God has given me strength and peace to make it not quite so overwhelming.

And it was a busy week.

I am officially done canning as the pears were finished today and the last of the tomatoes were pulled out of the freezer earlier this week and canned too. (Okay, so the tomatoes were not planned and I just got mad at them when they jumped out and landed on my toe...it probably was not premeditated on their part, but none the less, they were in quart jars within the hour).

It is a good thing we are done canning too because:

1. I am officially out of canning jars in all sizes from quarter pint through quart.
2. I am going to have to be very creative in finding homes for the last of the pears that were canned today. I have some ideas and I foresee the purchased canned foods going out to the book case in the garage that serves as a pantry.

Tomorrow night a friend and I are teaming up to have a Stampin' Up party with a third friend being the demonstrator. The theme is Christmas so I will be making 2 traditional desserts in our family to share and we will all be sharing different Christmas crafting ideas we have for this year (and hopefully ordering supplies!)

So that is where I have been.

I will hopefully have lots to share with you next week including some pictures of how I manage to cram all my jars of canned goodness into my kitchen! Oh what I would not do for an old fashioned pantry!