I had to meet the new kitten that showed up to add to their already 5. It is very purry and lovey, so the kids are asking to keep it... They are supposed to be looking for homes for all the kittens but one, so it will be interesting with all those female kitten/cats around there. The herd could be expanding this fall. It was a very hot humid day and we spent a lot of it inside making two canners of tomato soup - 33 quarts with what we all ate for lunch, but grandma headed out with the two boys and Rose to check out the new tractor we are testing out. Rose got distracted by the black eyed Susans that are growing and blooming by the barn. Too cute for grandma to resist.
It was a great day of canning with two of my daughters and the ever helpful kitchen helper, David. He won't start preschool until after Labor day, so he is at home in air conditioning while his older siblings are in their hot classrooms and on the hot school bus. It is hard for me to feel good about the kids starting school in the summer. But Ruth takes it in stride saying that we are all happy when the kids are done for the summer in the middle of May. It was great fun to share the day with my two oldest daughters and watch them go through the process we have done every summer they have been alive of making tomato soup. It is a special recipe that my mother in law got as a young girl living at home on the farm with her 7 brothers and 2 sisters, and parents that were newly here from Belgium. I learned to make it as a newly wed from my mother-in-law and have made it every summer for the past 35 years. The girls have helped me most of those years, and I am so lucky to have Ruth just 3 miles away, and Nancy able to come home and help out too. Such a blessing! I remember the girls having regular store bought tomato soup at school and saying that it wasn't that good to them after having our wonderful homemade soup!
It is wonderful to be rubbing elbows with little Dave!
Yes, there is a lot of work that goes into this day of putting up food for the family. But the pleasure of spending time together as a family working, visiting, eating the fruits of our labors, caring for the little ones as they come in and out and have their needs attended to... these are good days for the soul of the family. Good days for sharing our values and our love of YOU. This day that began with a warning from YOU, O Lord that we should not put our being rich - our material possessions ahead of YOU. We must give up everything and follow YOU, Jesus! Our missing member, Hallel , did indeed give up her opportunity to be here with us to follow the contemplative LIFE. I am sure that she would say that she has received 100 fold for answering your call to be your Spouse. "But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first." Humble us, Lord!
Bless-bless, Barb
"Jesus Christ became poor although he was rich so that my his poverty you might become rich."
A few more that are good for a grandma's soul
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