A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
Look who decided to FINALLY arrive! Seth Elias was born at home this afternoon, weighing 8 pounds 12 ounces, and measuring 23 inches long! He is my biggest baby ever, and also the only one to be stubborn enough to make me wait until after the due date. 😛
I’m actually 38 1/2 weeks and officially full term! Considering more than half of my babies have been born at around 38-39 weeks I thought that I should have Kyle take a picture of me with my big belly because we may not get another chance. 🙂
We were shopping at Sam’s club a while ago and found that they had persimmons on sale for a really good deal. I also picked up a 3 pound bag of cranberries. I initially picked up one bag, and as we were eating those persimmons I had the thought, to try to can them. So I sent Kyle back for some more. I also got a couple of 3 pound bags of cranberries. I started by making some cranberry jam, and some spiced cranberry jam. I really can’t tell any difference between cranberry jam, and cranberry sauce though.
Then I made some persimmon jam. The recipe I found online called for a lot of lemon juice and as soon as I poured it in the whole pot smelled like lemon. I think if I every try to make persimmon jam again, I will reduce the lemon juice slightly to hopefully get more of the persimmon flavor.
My last experiment was to can persimmon slices. This experiment failed, big time. During the canning process the persimmons created this think slime in the jar. When we opened a jar and tasted them, they just tasted like they had gone bad. 🙁
We are getting closer to baby’s arrival, and it’s time to be making preparations. So last night Kyle moved our giant bed over about a foot, and I put the bassinet together. The little ones were attracted to the bassinet when they saw it this morning.
In between pulling Adam out of the bassinet, I unpacked other newborn baby stuff into the drawers of the dresser to get ready for baby. 🙂
Kyle worked from home today so that I could go to a chiropractor appointment, and he was disappointed that I would be driving the purple Hyundai when it passed 100,000 miles. So I took a picture for him. 😀
