Baking Day

Tuesday morning Julie and I donned our aprons and set off on a baking day. Julie had a list made and we were ready for action. Never understimate two moms on a mission!!

Here's some of the supplies...meat and more meat. You can't see all the fruits and veggies that got turned into baby food.

David and Julie grinding some wheatberries to make flour for the muffins made later in the day.

TWELVE(!!) hours later, the kitchen looked like this...

Our "To do" list looked like this...

And we looked like this...

But in the freezer was a lasagna, two meat loaves, two ham loaves, three pounds of taco meat, 20 brownbag burritos, one bag of burrito filling, spinach and rice casserole, one tray each of prunes, carrots, squash, rice, peas and carrots, pears, apples, and sweet potatoes for baby food, a dozen blueberry crumb muffins, a dozen banana crumb muffins, orange and spice rice, two bags full of homemade refried beans, and sliced ham. AND we did 7 loads of laundry!

It was so great to get so much done. The last two hours we worked during the commercials of The Biggest Loser, getting our own workout as we ran up and down the stairs to get as much done before we heard the call of the kiddos "Show's back on!!". Man, I love having a sis around. Now we just need to schedule a time for her to come and fill MY freezer!

Wednesday we were both pretty wiped out and were planning on doing not much of anything (or as much of that as can be done with 6 kiddos around!) but we ended up cleaning out a closet and listing a bunch of stuff on Craigslist and researching homeschool curriculum. We both figured we could do "nothing" next week when we're not with each other!