The ending of Farmer's Market

Well, the girls & I decided to stop doing Farmer's Market on Saturday mornings. We lasted 5 out of the 6 months, and thoroughly enjoyed it! Since school has started & Sharree has also started a couple of college classes, we found that all the baking was getting to be a bit much in the evenings. We usually mixed up our cookie batters on Tuesday evening, baked a few dozen on Wednesday evening after church, and then baked the rest on Thursday evening. Most of the time, the oven was on from 4:30 until 12:00/12:30 in order to finish baking all the cookies. Our repertoire of cookies consisited of the following: Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip, Banana-Oatmeal Chocolate Chip, Soft Sugar, Pumpkin, Molasses, Double Chocolate Chip, & Chocolate No-Bakes. We did not do all of these at the same time, but usually offered at least 4-5 different types each week. Then on Fridays, we made coffee cakes, Chocolate No-Bakes, & Toffee Bars.
We did a final count of our baking achievements and came up with the following totals:
4 batches of Toffee Bars
6 pies (Blueberry & Apple Struesel)
33 batches of coffee cakes (each batch= 5- 8in. cakes or 6 loaves; double layered)
300 dozen cookies (we sold @ 93% of those/the others were for samples or us)
We met & became acquainted with many wonderful people that were either fellow vendors- Kathy & Wacky [his name fits him :)], Diane, Jennifer, Karen, Larry, the Steinkes, Barb, Tonya, the Brunks, ...- or faithful customers -Becky, Ray & Dolly, the Coffeys, & many that I can recognize only by their faces, but will work on learning their names next year. I am quite tired of baking for now, but will be ready again next summer!

Licensed Driver

The biggest event in the last couple of weeks is that Sharree passed her driver's test and is now a licensed driver. She received a perfect score on her driving & did excellent on the maneuverability portion (the only part she was a bit nervous about which is a great accomplishment for her-not being very nervous or worried).

Tonight she drove on her own (well her sister was with her) for the first time to church to practice a song for service tonight. As I waved to her as she drove off, I told Jeff that we were at a new chapter of life, to which he replied that he DID NOT like it. :)

We did some reminiscing of our own & remembered that we were not nervous at all driving on our own, but realized that our parents probably were. I did ask mom this evening if that was the case when I started driving on my own and she answered, "Yes!", though I wasn't surprised.

It seems like you get through one phase of life with your child and another is right there to take its place! So, as Jeff & I are quickly realizing.......... our babies are growing up!! AAAAHHH!!!!!

School

My students (-one).

School started on Wednesday, August 26th for us, and this is my group of students minus one boy who is recovering from a tonsillectomy. Two of the students are new to our school this year, and are fitting in nicely. Our class consists of one 1st grader, three 3rd graders, one 4th grader, three 5th graders, & two 6th graders.
The caution banner on the door behind the students does not mean that there is something wrong with it or that rennovations are occurring. It goes with the theme of our classroom: Kids Under Construction. :)