Tomorrow, I will wake up and workout AGAIN.
Tomorrow, I will do four heads of hair AGAIN.
Tomorrow, I will say, "you can cry in your room." AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN.
Tomorrow, I will rush children to the school bus AGAIN.
Tomorrow, I will wipe syrup off the table AGAIN.
Tomorrow, I will start a load of laundry AGAIN.
Tomorrow, I will drive the preschool carpool AGAIN.
Tomorrow, I will ask someone, "are you treating him/her like you would like to be treated?" AGAIN.
Tomorrow, I will supervise "before dinner jobs" AGAIN.
Tomorrow, I will cook a decent dinner and get it on the table AGAIN.
Tomorrow, I will make sure the entire house is picked up before I go to bed AGAIN.
You know what I won't do tomorrow AGAIN?
I will not make and can applesauce AGAIN! It's done. For, like, 2 months...I will go downstairs and with no repeat effort look at my rows of jars of applesauce and it will make me so happy. Hurray for things with staying power!
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Impressive. It's always nice to accomplish something. Canning is not something that I think is worth the time. I don't like to do it and for the most part I can buy stuff at the store. Having said that, there are some things that my mom cans that you can not buy at the store. So, as long as I can, I'll just have my mom can them for me.
Oh yeah, we are all living groundhog day. Not only does that applesauce look good (did you know you could BUY applesauce?), but your kitchen counter looks good too. Is it tile?
Yum. I love applesauce. That looks great! I love the lowdown of the monotony of motherhood. I agree that doing something with staying power is so rewarding and needed. Right now I am working on getting my daughter's room painted. I love that I can see the next day that I actually did something. As opposed to the syrup, like you said, that needs to be wiped up again, and again and again...
Can you ship me some of that? That looks so good right now. Good for you for canning. I wish I knew how. It just seems so hard.
You go girl! Canning is out of my league :)
Give up on working out. Fat has staying power.
I wish I could can applesauce. I guess I could learn but who wants to be responsible for more knowledge?! Anyway...I really want to know where you got your black and white wall paper!
Were you DYING at how much work applesauce is and it gets shrunk down to teeny tiny?
I was.
BTW..I'm linking you. Celia is getting credit for my jumping to you.
I had plans to make applesauce- even bought the apples from the stake fruit drive thing. And again, I failed to do it. We ate the apples instead which I guess is good but my main motivation was to get rid of the apples so I wouldn't have to make applesauce.
Maybe I should stop reading your blog. You are a mother who follows through with plans. I am a mother who discovered the huge can of applesauce at Costco for $2.50 and threw out her plans.
That is great! But you know what sucks? Is when your kids love the applesauce and your husband keeps opening new bottles. We can blow through one jar in a day and a half. Then the jars will be gone and no staying power!
I am really happy that they love it (Trevor even said it's way better than the stuff at the store) but am sad when each new bottle of sweat, blood, and tears is opened!
Yum -- I want some. We usually make applesauce at the end of Fall when I have a bunch of old apples that no one will eat in the fridge. I like staying power. I try to only do laundry on Mon and Tues (but I don't have 4 kids yet) --- I love Wed. through Sun when I don't feel guilty about not doing laundry.
I think most of all that YOU have staying power to do all of that AGAIN every day!
I am so glad that Heather is linking you. Because you gals should be bestest friends. She gets into all that canning stuff as well. I'm going to her house in 12 days and will eat all of her applesauce and everything else she has canned since the last time I visited her. Too bad that your house isn't on the way to UT, cause I'd stop by and test out your applesauce as well.
I can totally relate to this post. Except for the part about canning, of course. The mundane every day tasks though. You put it perfectly.
Oh, and I want a jar of applesauce. Please send some my way.
Let me just quote Sister Beck for a moment: "Latter-day Saint women should be the best homemakers in the world." I think we could put your face on the poster.
You are awesome, you can't help it.
you + apples = beautiful bottles of applesauce
me + apples = a counter full of sad, withering apples, glaring at me reproachfully as they die.
I'm right there with you on the never ending cycle of make/wash/tidy/tell/teach, repeat.
Anything I can has staying power. It is staying in its bottle until the Second Coming. Just like my mom's! I'm sure it will still be good by then, right?!
Canning is a mystery to me. Why is your applesauce canned if it is in a jar? Why isn't it called jarring? Why are you my husband's dream wife?
Loved this post. Some nights--as exhausted as I am--I don't want to fall asleep, because I just don't want to get up and do it all over again.
Congrats on the applesauce! Sometimes it's fun to do things the old-fashioned way, huh?
Hooray! Something that will stay done. I'm going to revel in your victory since nothing I did today will stay done.
You and P.P. have so much in common. She's the only person I know who 'cans' stuff.
So, do you ever get really annoyed that you're doing the same thing over and over and over again, even though you know it's necessary?? I'm struggling with that.
Good job on the applesauce.
I like the positive spin on all the ground hog things we do each day as mothers.
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