My Week Thus Far....

If you've been wondering why I've been scarce on the blogging scene this week, these 2 pictures should be self explanatory.

I don't think I'd forgotten how much attention a 2 month old baby needs so much as deliberately blocked it from my mind. Some days it's hard to find time to go to the bathroom let alone get anything useful done around the hovel.

Emmy is beginning to be alert for longer periods and more often. Of course she'd usually prefer company while she coos and kicks. I'm the Grandma so I'm most often the designated company. Grandpa will do in a pinch if I have to do something silly like cook a meal or swap laundry from the washer to the dryer.

Jessica says that Emmy's sleeping through the night almost every night now. Woo hoo for Jessica and Jason! And for me, since I'll have Emmy from Friday morning at about 6:30 am until Sunday evening about 8 or 9 pm. Since I'm putting that in print she'll be fussy and awake both nights. It's like tempting fate or pulling the lion's tail. *Sigh*.....

I do have few things in the works for today and tomorrow besides Emmy that's taking up a lot of my time. For supper tonight I'm making MY HOMEMADE BEEF ROAST, POTATOES AND GRAVY. Click on the bold link for the recipe, found on MY RECIPE BLOG. I'm making enough for me and Lamar, and enough for Jessica and Jason's supper as well. Jessica will pick up their supper when she comes to get Emmy. I'm glad that I offered to share my supper with them because I just found out that Jessica has a 7 pm meeting for work, and now she won't have to worry about rushing around to cook supper before her meeting.

I'm also making and canning HOMEMADE CHOW CHOW OR RELISH for a dear friend. Click on the bold link for the recipe, also found on MY RECIPE BLOG. I'll be making that either this evening or on Friday depending on how I feel and how my time is managed. I have enough ingredients for several batches and I'll probably be making more as my friend gets the vegetables out of his garden. He loves the stuff, but I'll be honest here. I can't stand the stuff. I can make chow chow with the best of them, but don't ask me to eat it.

Don't think I've got enough to do? Okay, apparently I don't think so either. I've been getting a lot of homegrown tomatoes, bell peppers and jalapeno peppers. Know what I'm thinking? I've got enough stuff to make at least two batches of MY HOMEMADE SALSA. Click on the bold link or the picture for the recipe. As I get more tomatoes and peppers I'll make more salsa as long as the garden stuff keeps coming in. I canned a couple of dozen jars of my salsa last summer and I only got to eat a small portion of it.

It seems that Lamar, Jessica and Jason really love my salsa and didn't feel it necessary to inform me that they were eating it almost faster than I could make and can it. So this year? I'm hiding it! And I've already told Lamar that the salsa? It will be rationed this time. :-)

After I get through with the chow chow and the salsa, if I have enough peppers left I'm going to make MY HOT PEPPER JELLY. Yeah, click on the bold link for the recipe. We shall see.....By the time I get the rest of this stuff done I don't know if I'll care if I make hot pepper jelly or not.

There's just not enough hours in the day during harvest, freezing and canning season, is there?

Emmy will be waking up hungry any time now, and I have to type those recipes on my recipe blog so those links will actually, like, link to a recipe. Plus I need to peel potatoes soon to put in with my roast. So I'll stop blogging about my life and get back to actually living it.

Y'all have a great Thursday evening, y'hear?