Ok so in the last two months we have been super busy in our house. On Sept 11th we welcomed a sweet little girl, Ashlynn Belle, into our family. She was born at 10:21am weighing in at 7lbs 12 oz and 20 1/2 inches long. She has been a joy to our family. Caden isn't so sure what to think of having a baby in the house but I think he is adjusting for the most part.
So to say the least I have been home enjoying my maternity leave with the kids. The weather has been pretty nice up until the last couple of days were it has turned bitter cold and has been raining off and on making it difficult to get Caden outside to play. With the weather being nasty the last week or so it left me with a lot of green tomatoes on my plants and rather than them go to waste I picked a big huge box of them hoping to find something to do with them. Well, being home and have oh so much free time(joking) I decided that I would try my hand at making green tomato mincemeat like my grandmother used to make. Well 4 hours of chopping/grinding and 7 1/2 hours cooking = 26 pints of yummy mincemeat. I am so excited seeing as this was my first attempt at it plus being home with the kids by myself made it out to be a very long process but man by last night my house smelled so good. We have plenty now for a while but I know I am going to have to share. It was well worth the hassle of finding suet as well as juggling the kids and getting everything done in a timely manner.
So I think Caden is begining to get used to me being home now during the day. We do watch a lot of movies but it is nice to be able to take him out to the park and color with him and things like that. I am hoping that next spring/summer I will be able to take him to the zoo because that would make for a wonderful outing. I am looking forward to being able to stay home with the kids and do things with them that I feel like I miss out on excepessally in the summer time seeing as I am always working. Well, I guess I should post some updated pictures. I still need to get some more recent ones seeing as Ashlynn is now 4 1/2 weeks old and I haven't taken any yet. Hopefully there will be more to come soon. Until then Enjoy
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