#27

on the list was to learn to can. This summer was the perfect time to learn, so much produce at the farmers market and in our own garden.

At the beginning of the summer I used up an amazon gift card and bought these three items -canning tools, water bath canner, and one of the Ball complete book home preserving. I have loved flipping through the book at all the fun recipes, I have so many ideas for things I want to do in the future - brandied peaches, tomato sauces, juice concentrates, apple pie filling. I would love to have a pantry full of food I've put away for the year. Someday I will...

Here is a small portion of the four things I've canned this year, I just pulled out a jar or two of each to take a picture of. There's strawberry and blueberry jam (which were by far the easiest things to can) and then there's pickled peppers and canned crushed tomatoes. I haven't tried the peppers or tomatoes yet but the jams were unbelievably yummy. I also made a bunch of bread and butter pickles a few weeks ago but they were so yummy that they're just about gone already!

I'm really so glad I learned how to can. It's really easy and fun and I love looking in the pantry and amid the various things I've bought to see things I made - even picked (like the blueberries) and then preserved is so great!

#19

Remember the quilt I was working on a few weeks ago? Well I finished it!

I actually finished it a while ago and it's been getting lots of love and cuddles these last few weeks.

I love watching my house fill up with handmade items, and watching my son love them - it makes my heart all warm and fuzzy :)

#66

On my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days was to start a baby book for Q. I'm obviously extremely overdue on this but I still wanted to do it.

On my trip to Vermont I came across this book by Nikki McClure. Nikki McClure's work amazes me, it's all cut out of paper with an x-acto knife! This certainly meets all my needs and I've already been filling it with memories and information.

I'm been digging through photos, facebook, various notes on the calendar, this blog and my personal journal to find lots of info to put in here, here's a peak of what I've done so far.

Rose Garden

I've completed #78 on the list. Take B a picnic lunch at work. It was great, we brought sandwiches and a blanket and walked to the rose garden near his building and had a great family lunch. In the middle of the work week no less! It's such a joy to see how much Q loves his daddy and lights up when we pick him up from work, which made it even more special to see daddy in the middle of the day.

101 in 1001

This is big. I really want to do this. This list was also really hard to make. The harder it was the more meaningful some of the things on the list became, and some silly ones made the cut too.

My mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in 1001 days (~2.75 years)

Inspired by: Day Zero

Personal
1. send a secret to Post Secret
2. write a fan letter
3. become a CPST
4. join a book club

5. give blood

6. go to a baseball game with my grandpa

7. fill one journal

8. write a poem

9. complete our wedding album

10. read Time Magazines Top Ten Books of all Time

11. Get a PenPal

12. Do CPR/First Aid Certification

13. read the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
14. pan for gems at the State Fair

15. complete a 1500 piece jigsaw puzzle

16. Join a CSA

17. dye my hair (3/10/10)

18. take an art class (sculptural needle felting April 2010)

19. sew a quilt (5/22/2010)

20. knit a sweater

21. lose 30 pounds (in progress)

22. Pay for a strangers meal in a restaurant

23. go to a broadway show

24. see Casablanca (done 11/11/09)

25. finish reading Harry Potter

26. fast for Ramadan

27. learn how to can (July 2010)

28. go to the movies. alone. (done 1/31/10)

29. get my root canal finished
30. read Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of nearly everything'
31. organize all my loose recipes
32. buy and hang 'y las dos fridas'
33. have a yard sale
34. go skinny-dipping
35. go ice skating
36. attend a meditation retreat
37. join the YMCA (Feb 2010)
38. sell something I made
39. Post something on FreeCycle.org (Rug! 9/21/09)
40. sleep under the stars
41. sleep 8 hours straight (ha!)
42. *private goal*
43. get a wii
44. hike a section of the AT
45. get new glasses (December 09)
46. scan old family photos (January 2010 for Grandpa's memorial)
47. log 100 miles in 100 days with my strollerometer
48. call Christina
49. attend a birth besides my own (Lorelei 4/8/2010)
50. grow sunflowers (planted 5/12/2010)
51. go tubing
52. get a bike
53. organize my photo boxes
54. for every book I bring into my home, let one go (In:5 Out:13)
55. host a giveaway on my blog (2/3/2010)
56. get a nice set of flannel bedding
57. dress up for halloween (Completed 10/31/09)
58. hem all my pants to the correct length (can you believe I've never done this?)
59. write at least one (snail mail) letter a month
60. get a professional family portrait taken
61. attend a midnight mass

With/For Q
62. Start a college fund for Q (3/8/2010)

63. Take Q to an art museum

64. Take Q on a city bus (Completed 1/22/09)

65. Write Q's birth story
66. start some sort of baby book/scrapbook for Q (started 6/13/2010)
67. Get Q a birth certificate (Completed 12/3/09)
68. take Q to church where we were married
69. Paint 'on the day you were born' canvas (I'll have to explain this one later)
70. Take a baby sign language class (Completed December 2009)
71. introduce Q to my great aunts (Completed November 15th 2009)
72. EC exclusively for a full week
73. introduce Q to Rami and Reem
74. take a swim class with Q
75. take a mom and baby music class

With/For B
76. Pay off all consumer debt (in progress)
77. have another child
78. bring B a picnic lunch at work (10/9/09)
79. take an overnight with husband, without child

80. create a will
81. get a safety deposit box (3/8/2010)

Travel

82. Go to FRFF

83. Visit Rock Point School (July 2010)
84. Take my family to New Mexico
85. Go to NYC
86. Take Q overseas
87. Go swimming in the ocean
88. Take Q camping (5/15/2010)

Service
89. serve food at a homeless shelter
90. participate in a march of dimes walk (Scheduled for April 24, 2010)
91. take part in buy nothing day
92. attend a political rally

93. Use all of B's community service time doing service as a family

Food
94. make Tom Kha Gai soup
95. make homemade marshmallows (3/11/10)
96. make my own puff pastry
97. get an enameled cast iron dutch oven

98. make pesto with a mortar and pestle
99. learn to make an awesome sangria
100. take a wilton cake decorating class
101. Join Tuesday's With Dorie (Joined 9/22/09)