Step 1: Live in a community where the fruit inhibitor spray didn't take leaving a billion apples that will rot unless you grab them. Consider picking and selling the apples at a stand on State Street to pay the community water bill. (Suck it Kent Wells at PG)
Step 2: Forget the ladder and enlist the help of Abbie's dream boy to climb the tree.
Step 3: Give Amelia a job so she will stop taking a bite of each apple giving her the runs in the future for sure.
Step 4: Wash the apples. Stop. change diapers for 2 kids, put one down for a nap, nurse the other.
Step 5: Peel the apples. Stop. Throw in a load of towells, change of clothes, kitchen rugs to recover from the previous apple baths.
Step 6: Send 5-year-old to the basement to get empty bottles (point out there are at least 85 because we opted not to do peaches this year.) Go to the couch and take a quick 20 minute nap because she gets so distracted and takes forever to complete the task.
Step 7: Make the syrup for the apples. Stop. Get napping daughter out of bedroom. Change diaper. Make snack for girls. Growl at oldest for spilling lemon juice after being told several times to "not do that". Go back to syrup. Stop. Nurse child. Forget syrup on stove. Burn syrup.
Step 8: Start syrup over. Send 2 helpers to the basement to watch George Monkey. Take phone call from brother. Burn finger on hot syrup while not paying attention. Blame Ms. Tulip.
Step 9: Load bottles in canner. Frick. Hear one break. Replan strategy for next batch of filling which would include vacationing husband in the process.
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Sure wish I could be more like you. You are my hero . . . or is it heroine? Save some apple pie filling for me. I will be there in a month to taste test.
P.S. - tell me who the heck is Ms. Tulip. I feel slightly out of the loop.
Referring to step 1 and Kent Wells w/ PG. I heard about the water bill for the hoa and the back billing that they promised they would not do. How goes the battle their? I was recently turned onto your blog by a mutual friend. I will let you guess. Anyways, fun reading.