Strawberries, Strawberries, and More Strawberries

So I ordered strawberries from Zaycon.  Now looking back I'm so happy I split the order of strawberries with my friend.  I got home with my two flats of strawberries which equaled 16 pounds of strawberries and started to get the stems off of them.

 My whole thought when I bought these strawberries was to make jam with them.  Well I got going and ended up with 8 bowls of smashed strawberries for jam. 

I looked at this and thought I should have plenty of containers to put these in.  Well this is a picture of the bowls before I added the 4 1/2 cups of sugar to each of them.  Amazing what that much sugar will do to bowl of strawberries.  I had gotten through three bowls and was out of containers.  So I started to use all my empty butter and sour cream containers.  I used up all of them and ended up having to go to the store to buy some more containers.  When I finished this is what I had in strawberry jam along with really sore shoulders and arm muscles. :-)

There are 29 containers of jam.  I also ended up with a bowl of strawberries for strawberry shortcake for Scott's father day treat, and a quart bag of strawberries in the freezer.  If I hadn't split the strawberry purchase I would have had more strawberries coming out my ears than I would have known what to do with them. 

Sick but with what?????

Yes this is the question we have been asking since Sunday.  Poor little Rachel just hasn't been her normal self.  It all started off hives on Sunday at church.  We thought she was having an allergic reaction to something she eat.  So we did the normal Benedryl to help with it.  The next day she actually ended up having a rash on her torso and that night ended up on her face.  We thought that maybe it was a spot Scott missed on her face so we weren't to concerned.  Then on Tuesday it moved to all over her arms and upper legs.  I noticed that her face was really broken out also and so I took her into the Dr.  He said he wouldn't be able to figure out what she is allergic to but could take a few weeks to get out of her system and just to keep doing what we have been doing.  We woke up and she started to complain about her teeth hurting which we thought was weird but really didn't think about it until Thursday when she woke up and really complained about her teeth.  We looked in the roof of her mouth and it looks like hamburger.  She also had a fever that is at 102.4.   Scott said he thought it was probably hand, foot, mouth disease.  We can't really tell because she has no spots on her hands or feet just the mouth issues.  So weird!!  We fought the fever all day and she started to act normal until today when she wouldn't take any medicine so I thought she was getting better but by the time I got home from running errands she was crying, lethargic and had an even worst fever.  This time it was 103.7.  So we finally talked her into taking her medicine and I took her to the bathroom to take a bath to help with the fever.  We will see what we wake up to tomorrow.  I'm hoping the fever finally breaks and she can start to feel better again.

 Finally took the blanket off but just hanging on the couch.

See how sad and lethargic she is.  It was so hard to watch her feel like crap and not really being able to do anything for her except holding her.  Needless to say there was lots of cuddling the last few days.

6 Month's Food Supply

Yes this is my 6 months supply of food in our house.  We have been extremely grateful that we have been able to get our food storage bulked up.  The best part about this whole thing is yes there are only 12 boxes and fits on one and a 1/4 of our pantry shelves.  If you think you don't have room for food storage look at this and know that you do.  If you want to know how to get this give me a call it's really easy.

Video

Scott and Rachel like to sword fight with the water noodles.  I think it's pretty funny so I thought I would video it.  She really can get some pretty good hits in when she thinks about it.
There are two different video's to watch.  She's so funny in both.
 http://youtu.be/xMOQ3zgNFYo

And video #2
http://youtu.be/Zj76gM3Acy4