Being Frugal

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Staying Up Past Dark

It was such a beautiful night that we just had to enjoy it. We roasted hot dogs and made s'mores! Daniel loved it. Not to mention he slept great that night. Maybe keeping him up later is the key? Maybe it was that cool fresh air?!

"What? I get to stay up late!! Oooh I'm so excited!!"

"Thanks for the special snack Dad!"

"Mmmmm. This tasted great but I only had two bites because I was so busy making 'parking lots' with my sidewalk chalk". 

"Oh no! MOM, I need a napkin!"

Raspberry Cheeks

We took a trip to the farm on Monday to pick raspberries and raid the garden. Although we were contending with the honey bees who were busy at work, we picked a pretty nice amount of berries.

Little miss raspberry cheeks!

We also found a bunch of celery! That was fun, I've never picked fresh celery before. Smelled so good!

Lydia chomped on the celery, along with a fresh carrot. 

Daniel loves giving Lydia kisses! She giggles. 

Happy Birthday

Yea, so where did those last 3 years go??

Mmmm, best cake ever. I found a really good recipe a few years ago. Makes the perfect, super moist, heavy, chocolate cake! Secrect ingredient - coffee (decaf in this case).

Spent the day at the zoo

Nice kitty, nice kitty

Such a great game!

Duplo

Cake and ice cream with friends.

Fun day!

Freezing Corn

Every year we freeze about 50 bags of fresh sweet corn. It's enough for about 1 bag per week. This year my parents grew enough corn for us to freeze what we needed. It's one of those 'family fun' things to look forward to in the fall.

Here's how we do it:

• Find 2 huge stock pots and start boiling water
• Husk about 6-7 dozen cobs of corn
• Add 8-12 cobs per stock pot, let water come to a boil again and cook for about 10 minutes.
• Take cobs out with tongs and put them in ice cold water (well water is great for this)
• Add 8-12 more cobs of corn to the boiling water before it begins to cool
• After the cobs have chilled for a bit (about 10 minutes) put them on the counter to cool down and rest.
• Continue the process until all cobs are cooked and cooled.
• Next, cut the corn off the cob. A corn cob peeler saves a lot of time and effort.  
• Measure about 2 cups per 1/2 gallon zip lock bag
• Label and freeze
• Will keep in the freezer for 1 year

The finished product, bagged up and ready to freeze.

I usually lay them flat in the freezer and spread them out for a day so they can freeze properly. Then I'll stack them in a pile.