"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley


"None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us."

--Sheri L. Dew

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

A Question?

I have been saving up to buy a pressure cooker/canner and was wondering if anyone knew someone who owns an american made canner? They don't have the gasket seal, the lid clamps down with some wing nuts. Unless I hear some major horror stories, I think I am going to buy it. I feel better buying american made and spending some good money to help people keep their jobs here.



Life in our woods is good. It is colder, but not so cold the kids can't go outside and play on the swingset my sister-in-law handed down to us. (I can't wait until next summer and we don't HAVE to go to the park everyday to play on swings and slides and teeter totters, I love going to the park, but it is nice not to have to pack up and go!)


Grant has been very busy working on a few little projects. Any major project has been put on hold until the weather is better, i.e. painting because we can't open the windows! And busy is the right word for him. We wake up Saturday morning and I have to convince him come lunch time to come and eat! This last weekend we raked up all the leaves in our back yard, then yesterday had a huge windstorm and yep, we get to do it all over again :) And Grant roto-tilled another patch of our lawn for us to plant a garden in come next spring. I am SO excited for that because the patch will have awesome sunlight, unlike the old parts we used this year where the plants were dwarf because they never got sun! Can you tell where the patch is? It is more than twice as wide as it used to be!!

I have been re-vamping our budget and working on getting all my canning supplies next year for free. We have a couple stores who give you money for shopping there. You have to rack up so many points but then they give you a coupon, mainly Albertsons, and I already was able to buy two boxes of rings and lids! I know, some of you are reading this thinking, "She must have better things to do with her time than worry about canning lids?" Well, no, this is what I love doing. I get so excited to can, except when I have to sink $30 in one day to buy new lids, then I get cranky. Getting them for free makes me HAPPY! So if you know of any deals on canning lids, let me know :)

And one last thing, my sister-in-law enters the MTC tomorrow for 3 weeks before heading off to the Marshall Islands. I think many of you understand how SUPER EXCITED I am for her!! I just can't wait to start getting those emails all about teaching the gospel and all of her wonderful (and not so wonderful) and funny experiences! Oh the joy!
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