We have had a busy summer

Our summer has been super busy with DH off work (the company he was working for went out of business so he is working through the hall now) so he has been home a lot (almost too much!) but we spent a lot of time fishing and doing family type things.

We also found that number 3 is due the end of Feb beginning of March. This one will be a garage sale baby since just about everything we had from the first two either wore out (like the crib mattress they will only take so much jumping before they give way) or was past its expiration date (like the car seats...did you know they go out of date?) or I loaned it out and it was never returned (like the bouncy seat and all my bottles). I bought a new car seat (DH insisted on a new one you never know what you are getting when you buy a used one) this one is one that goes from 5 lbs to 20 lbs rear facing then 20 to 40 lbs front facing so it should cover us for at least four years! Still need to pick up a pack-n-play (which I am using instead of a traditional crib because my kids tend to start climbing around 8 months of age or so and it is much closer to the floor than a crib and since once they start the crawling out thing I move them to a bed with railings on it mine tend to sleep better that way) and a bouncy seat (that will come from a garage sale) and a stroller also will get from a garage sale (I have one in the attic that will work for the time being if I cannot find one). I use the Gerber and Evenflo bottles so they are pretty cheap at Target so each Target run I pick up a couple of them. Next I need to start on the formula, diapers (have a few bought already along with wipes but since I only buy them with coupons I start ahead of time!) and get busy on Christmas gifts so that I can start on bibs, blankets, etc these will be hand made and either knitted or crocheted.

I also bought another spinning wheel (named her Lillian) at a garage sale (for $20) that DH is fixing the few pieces that it needed and should be ready for a good cleaning job and oiling this week.

This past weekend I canned 6 quarts of tomatoes (not a good year for tomatoes here too cool and they had lots of blossom end rot) and 11 quarts of peaches plus 6 pints of peaches (I ran out of quart jars). Will be doing beets and some other things once I buy more rings I have tons of jars but somewhere along the line the rings have gotten lost. Odd.

It is pouring down rain off and on today from an odd low pressure system so no garden work today and no work for dh either. We got our school work done and I have a dr's appointment this afternoon and the boys may go fishing depends on what the radar looks like later on. Everything here is soaking wet as of 11pm last night we had gotten 1.5 inches of rain and then had some rollicking thunderstorms overnight into this morning and now more downpours so when it stops again I will check the rain gauge.

A local community is having their garage sales this coming Saturday so we will be spending the day there do that and praying that we find the last things we need for the little one and more jars!