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Sadie and I got our library fix while we were at my parents’ house! Their local library opened, so we hightailed it over there to read and check out some books.

In the evening, my dad and I got some work done for the family business.

We sat out on the back porch with my dad’s laptop and I was thinking about what a blessing it is to take work outside and to be able to call my family members co-workers. God has been so good to me.

Dad was focused to the max, lol.

Speaking of family, my sister was texting me last week and asking if I had any dinner ideas. I sent her my recipe for sweet and sour chicken (which I completely forgot about until I looked on my recipe page for ideas) and she made it and loved it!

She even sent me a picture, which totally has me craving sweet and sour chicken. Thanks a lot, Hannah 😉

In other news, I’m starting to make a packing list for when we go camping this summer and I realized just how much you have to pack to go camping.

We also put Sadie in the back of her baby carrier to see how she would like that if we go hiking and she seemed to enjoy it… for a few minutes, haha.

I can’t wait to see what she thinks of camping. Jimmy and I both went camping a lot when we were growing up, so we have wonderful memories of being out in the woods, making s’mores, and sleeping under the stars.

Have you been camping? Do you enjoy it?

What’s something I can’t forget to pack?

We decided to build a fort this morning using our couches, scarves, and a blanket. Pretty impressive, I know 😉

We did important things in it like playing with Sadie’s toy trucks, snuggling, and reading books. She especially loves Biscuit books lately.

Don’t worry, we were safe because Malcolm and Niva supervised the whole ordeal very closely!

After we read and played in the fort, I decided to put Sadie’s hair in pigtails. I just love how cute they look.

Every time I style her hair, this is what happens about two seconds later…

They sure are cute while they last. My theory is that she gets so excited to have her hair done that she wants to see it, so she takes the hair band out, lol.

I have a question. In the first picture of Sadie with her pigtails in, there’s a bunch of produce on the counter behind us. Jimmy’s co-worker gave him:

Ten pounds of red delicious apples
Ten pounds of pears
Five pounds of russet potatoes.

What a blessing! At first I was thinking I would process the apples into a few batches of apple pie filling or apple sauce, maybe store the pears in our cellar, and make twice baked potatoes with the potatoes. But now I’m kind of thinking I should ask our neighbors if they need or want any produce! Or maybe I’ll do a bit of both cooking and giving away.

Living My Full Life

Library Fix, Work, and A Recipe

Have you been camping? Do you enjoy it?

What’s something I can’t forget to pack?

Fort Time, Two Seconds Later, and What Would You Do?

What would you do?

Do you have any recipe ideas for an abundance of apples, pears, and potatoes?