our crazy carter life..

Its finally hump day whoo hoo!! We are counting down to the weekend cant wait for the beach, a much needed vacation! This week has went by so slow! So with the week crawling by thought I would try a new project, jelly making. Yes I know I am a little off my rocker for trying this, but what the heck. I didn't think it would be that difficult, I mean my mom has made it, my grandmothers, my husbands grandmothers why not me!! For starters I dont think they tried this with three screaming kids running around at 9:30 at night. First misatake! Oh well anyway after cooking down the blackberries, I had to strain them to get all the seeds out. This wasnt very difficult according to my good friend Glenda, just place the cheesecloth over the strainer pour in the berries mash, then finish ringing out the cloth with my hands. Sounded simple. Lets just say my hands are Barney purple and this morning I am still finding spots of blackberry juice on the wall and floor! Next I had to cook the juice and add the pectin and sugar, which went very smoothly unitl I relized my pot was to small the mixture bolied over all my stove and down under the burners! It was finally time to pour up the mixture into the jars. This would have been pretty simple if I would have had a funnel and a brain to remember the jars are hot. So needless to say jelly making will be one of those thing I think I will save for when the children are grown and I can possibly think!! So long for now!