Sunday, October 04, 2009

Things I want to do before we move in November

Move in November?! Yes that's right, you heard it here first. I finally get to move! Hopefully this will be the last time for awhile. We've had our house that we're currently living in for sale for about 8 months. Finally we decided to rent it out. The perfect family came along and viola! It's done! This family seems pretty amazing, I'm stoked to have them as neighbors. Anyhoo, here's my very ambitious list of things to do before the big move. This is besides packing of course.
-Make these baby bloomers for Owen
-Finish Felicia's Scarf
-Make a few pairs of these cute slippers
-finish Chace's baby quilt
-finish the Kiss's wedding quilt
-finish Christmas gifts that I'm making, and Christmas decorations. I have no idea what I'm doing for this, I just keep getting ideas and starting projects, so I'll have a lot to finish by the time Dec 24th comes around.
-Sort out my deep freeze which really means making about 10 ice cream pails of soup, making Saskatoon jam, making perogies (I figured if I can sneek pureed veggies into them it would be worth the effort to make them from scratch), making squash bread and many many other squash delights as I have about 200 pounds of squash to use (seriously not even exaggerating), making pate (yum), making a few freezer meals to have on hand.
-use up some stuff from my fridge like a HUGE thing of cream cheese, what was I thinking?!?!
-use the rest of the tomatoes so they don't go bad. I'm making batch number 2 of salsa (yes Melissa, I'm totally using your moms recipe this time!) I'm also making green tomato chutney, which will later be used in mince meat tarts, so good.
-finish the apple juice and apple sauce, which won't be hard because I'm already half done that right now.
-digging up all the roots that are still under ground. Carrots, potato's, rutabaga, and beets. I'll probably can the beets because that's how we like them the best around here.
-I'm really getting the itch for baby number 3, but that might not get done what with all these other things going on. This is really just a test to see if I get a reaction from this comment, ha ha. June is 9 months away. I'm very busy in June. Therefore baby number three will just have to wait a bit.
-I'd also really like to finish the house that we'll be moving into. This means painting painting painting. And shopping for light fixtures and other such things. I have some pretty great neighbors and friends that are offering a lot of help in this area. Couldn't do it without them.
-making these lists are very pointless for me, as I never really do half the stuff on them. I made a list in the spring and I would laugh to look at it now, I won't even allow myself to look at it. But if you want to look at it here's the link.
And with that, I'm out! Got a lot to do!