Busy Saturday

So today's list is really full.  Saturdays are spent mainly in the kitchen, which is why I needed to get it cleaned up yesterday.  I love cooking and the goodies produced from my cooking, but the clean up is always the hard part.

My mom is coming to help.  Many hands make light work and good conversation.  My mom and I live really close, but we don't see each other that often.  We are close however and she is my sounding board for all my problems.  My husband is also, but he sees things from a man's perspective and, as everyone knows, men think about things differently.  So she and my step-mom are always the ones who I can get real motherly advise and I know will be there for me.  It is really great to have two moms.

Anyway, here is my Saturday list:

1. Pick up my fruit and vegetables from our organic produce group
2. Wash and prepare fruit and vegetables for the week
3. Juice all the oranges and freeze in ice trays
4. Make a batch of kiwi preserves and can it.
5. Go buy fruit for Sunday morning services
6. Prepare fruit for Sunday morning services
7. Make 5 dozen muffins for Sunday morning services
8. Clean kitchen after all the food prep and cooking
9. Get pictures done of son (Appointment is 12-2pm)
10. Wash and dry sheets

There are also the normal things like:

• Feed the animals
• Make everyone lunch
• Make everyone dinner
• Clean up after each meal
• Take out the trash
• Clean the sinks
• Read my Bible

This doesn't actually sound like I'm living a simple life, but really it is.  I love that I can and cook at home.  I'm not spending money on things that I can make and I am spending time with someone I love.  It is really a relaxing thing as we sit at the table preparing food.  Now there is the extra of making food for church tomorrow, but that is only once a month and I do get enjoyment out of cooking.  If I did not enjoy doing something then it would become a chore and not a simple thing.  I think that the enjoyment of things makes them simple, not the fact that you do not do anything.