I woke up to a beautiful sight. Every morning before the Economy 7 ends of the night, I try to do a load of laundry. Here is England, the reward you for not using Electricity throughout the day. If you do your household things that pull a lot of electricity during the 7 hour period at night, electricity is cheaper. Woo hoo.. LOL. The hours are not the best to be doing things unless you are a night owl or early bird. The hours start at 1:30 and end at 8:30. Since I have to be in bed before 1:30 I set the dishwasher to run around 2am and wake up early to do laundry in the morning. I can delay the washing machine if I needed to but I find it easy to just get up at 6:30 and run a load and dry another. Well I woke up and headed to the Utility room and caught a glimpse of the sunrise... and to my surprise there was a hot air balloon rising up.. then another...and another...a total of 9 appeared as I watched. They were so pretty with the sunrise.
Finally Mathew got some Lucky Charms!
After laundry, the kiddos had breakfast and then Mathew wanted to head outside to ride his bike. His mind never gets off things that move. So he headed out and came back inside soon after that to ask me to come outside to see his stunts. He had taken his ramp and set up the pieces around the house to jump his bike. While I was out there watching him, I decided it was time to cut the shrubs that were hanging over the pathway around the house. So off I went to get the hedge trimmers... hand held ones. It was a lot of work trying to get them clipped. It would have been easier to use Electric Hedge Trimmers, but ours are not for the UK. So I did not want to try it. Today, I wish I had. I woke up with my hands sore and achy. Mathew picked some more apples from the apple tree and placed them into buckets.
After trimming up outside, we came inside had some lunch and moved on to cleaning up the house inside. The kids helped by sweeping the floors, cleaning up their stuff and wiping down the kitchen table. I scrubbed the floors and swept up the rest of the house. I put away the photos and other items that were scattered on the pool table waiting to be hung up. Unfortunately until we get paint on the walls, I am not hanging anything up. So they were put away from now.
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After cleaning up, the kids and I decided to make home made apple sauce for dessert. We peeled and cored the apples using my pampered chef peeler and then placed them into a pan with some water, cinnamon and sugar. I let them boil down for about 20 minutes. Then I mashed them. We stored them in a container that I had already at the house. It is amazing that 10 apples ( yes they were small) made only 1/2 jar off apple sauce. I guess we will just have to pick more and start cooking them up. We are going to try to do apple pie next!
The kids went on to play. Mathew went back outside and Paige upstairs. After a bit of free time, we cleaned up from the day and waited for Mat to come home. I did my best to clean the HUGE windows in the back of the house but I need to break out a ladder for that! I can't believe how black the cloth was though after wiping them down. I guess since the other windows in the house were really dirty, I should not expect the biggest on in the house to be clean! But I also did not expect a black cloth when I was finished doing one of them.
Once Mat got home, it was time to start dinner. The kids played Mat in some pool while I cooked up some food. They love spending time with their dad and it is nice to have them not at my feet when I am trying to get things done. It makes for an easier end of the day!
We ate dinner and then it was time to try our dessert. The kids enjoyed it a lot. Mathew ( who does not like apple sauce) loved it. We all decided that we would use that recipe for the apple pie but I think we will make the sauce and then add it to the pie crust and make mini apple pies in cupcake pans. We just need some vanilla ice cream!
After dinner and dessert, the kids went upstairs and played until bedtime. Then we made a bed in the playroom for them to have movie time together. These are special nights because we have not had movies at bedtime since we left Ohio. It makes this rule easy with no TVs in the bedrooms!
The kids got ready for bed and brushed teeth. I went down and then up and took my first bath in the claw foot bathtub...Mat went to sleep.. and finally after a busy day, I laid down in my bed and tried to fall asleep. Not an easy task at 9pm!
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