Pear season

Often I look at other people's blogs and think of how unique theirs are. I think majority of my blogs have been on our kids. That is the stage of life we are in and really what consumes majority of our time and energy. I think I need to start taking more pictures of what else happens in our day. Stop and smell the roses sort of idea. It's just so hard when a day consists of dropping kids off or picking up, cleaning the house, going to one playground or another, playing with the kids or making meals. One thing we love about living here is the fruit. We have our own fruit monster - KYLA. She will eat fruit constantly if allowed. Ray's favorite fruit is pears. We love all the others too. I made 18 jars of strawberry jam this year. Froze a bunch for smoothies as well as peaches. I have canned cherries and one pie - Thanks to my sister I love my new cherry pitter. Blueberries we froze as they are great for muffins later on. When it's pear season and then apple season we can and freeze a lot. I canned 18 jars of pears this year. Same as last year. I though 40lbs would have gone further but I think we ate quite a bit of them before I got the chance to can the rest. I have pear crisp too. I guess it's not only pear season, it's now plum season and the beginning of apple season too. I have a bunch of plums that would go great with those pears in a crisp too. I need to make my plum plots and freeze those too. I love all the fruit, enjoy doing the work to save it all and look forward to enjoying it all through the year.