today~

Today me and my trusty sidekick have been super busy!  We have made twenty-four pounds of soap to go along with the twenty-four pounds we made the other day. I'm hoping to be stocked up enough to not have to make much more for the remaining season. My brain was not with me upon a couple of occasions during the making and I did make a couple of mistakes. I hope you herbal mint soap lovers don't mind some orange essential oil thrown in there...eek!  
Beans ~ black eyed peas and turtle have been soaking all day to be cooked for lunches. Tomatoes were roasted ~ something I've never done before, for pizza sauce, which I actually use for spaghetti sauce sometimes. I'll have to finish cooking and freezing the sauce tomorrow as I have just plain run out of time. 
About twenty-two pounds of bananas were frozen, to be used in smoothies for our snacks. I have gotten away from smoothies for some reason, but have come across a couple reciepes I would like to try, so we are moving forward with this kind of health food again. Some of the bananas were way to ripe even for freezing, those got tossed into the making of some faboous banana bread ~ one loaf for a bed time snack, the other for breakfast. 
With all this fixing my sidekicks main job was to wash the crazy amount of dishes, along with helping with baby and just being an extra set of hands when needed. A couple of the littles thought that the peeling of ALL those bananas would be fun, so they jumped in to help out, succumbing to their weekness of having to have a bite here and there.  
All this busy day of making went along with lessons, of course a tired and cranky mama, a teething baby, quite a bit of very rowdy children, chasing goats off the porch for the umpteenth time, laundry, naps, making meals/snacks, lots of music and laughter and maybe some correcting/disciplining. 
I'm very happy to have got so much done and very happy to be going to bed!
JM