Socks, Canning, Preschool…that about highlights my life these days

Here's my first place ribbon with my socks. These are the ones I entered in the Laramie County Fair. I entered some in the State Fair and know I got a first. My mother-in-law also said I got a gift certificate for Superintendent's Choice (or something like that)…YEAH!!

I've been pretty busy canning this weekend. I canned some chokecherry jelly and syrup (thanks to my mother-in-law and Lloyd for the chokecherries), peach butter, and sweet pickled green beans. Jeremy still wants me to can some meat and some chili, so maybe next weekend.

We I have recently decided to quit buying paper napkins and I'm making some fabric napkins from my stash. We've got some blue camo, cherries, and stars. I'm just doing a quick zigzag around the edges and, Voila!, napkins. We've had arguments over who gets which napkin….

Next week a coworker and I are going to the National Hydraulic Engineering Conference in Park City, Utah, where they had the last winter Olympics. It is work related, but my coworker and I are pretty excited to get out of town.

The new daycare/preschool is going pretty well. There were no tears on Monday, tears from Anna on Tuesday and Wednesday, tears from both girls on Thursday. Yet on Friday, Grace smiled and waved from the window. Anna didn't go on Friday as she was running a fever. Of course, the fever broke by 8:30 that morning and I decided not to take her to the doctor. Almost like a wasted day off, but not really because I got to spend it with Anna and we never get Anna-Mommy time all by ourselves very often.