Friesencold

Since I last wrote on here, we’ve done lots of stuff. We took a family trip to Boston to visit my sister Holly and her husband Dwight (plus my mom met us there), I got a cold (not great), TJ’s parents came for a visit (great), I read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (good), and I finished reading and taking notes on Respectful Kids by Todd Cartmell (finally!). I won’t be writing about all that tonight or in the foreseeable future, but I do have some pictures to share of a few things we have lots of around here.

TJ’s parents brought all the rest of TJ’s old Legos with them to pass on to Bauer and Cash, so Bauer spent hours during their visit building things with his Papa. Here they were working on the space shuttle.

Tonight while TJ and Bauer were working on some other Lego creation, I had fun picking out and putting together as many Lego men as I could find. I don’t think I have them all, but I’d say this picture has about 47 of them.

Earlier today we went to the farmer’s market and I was finally able to buy a big box of peaches I had been hoping for all summer. I got 24 pounds for $24 and I counted every single one to find out I’d purchased 80 peaches! I can’t wait to make peach ice cream the same way I make banana ice cream all the time.

All 80 peaches wouldn’t fit on the one shelf I had cleared off for them, so I picked out any with bruises and put them in this bowl so we will use these up first.

I was also the lucky recipient today of a big box of bananas that a friend of mine who runs a food pantry gave me from their surplus. That’s a lot of banana ice cream too! Now I just have to go peel and freeze ‘em all.