yesterday pickles...tomorrow carrots

So, I go to my garden to check the production level today and notice the carrots (which weren't cooperating well at the beginning of the season) have exploded in size. So, now I have a bushel of carrots sitting waiting for my attention. What to do? Shall I farm them out to friends and neighbors or be the good Martha type (thanks jo-dee for the tag) and process them for preservation too?

Hubby thinks that if I went to the work to plant, feed, water, grow, and harvest I can surely finish the job. Therefore, as a final stunt, I will blanch and freeze a gazillion carrots tomorrow. Fun, Fun, Fun!

*I believe this will be the last preserving I do this season. I might try to do a few more bottles of salsa, but that will be IT.

In other news....The middle child, for our purposes we'll refer to her as bbe (big brown eyes), is ill. I pick her up from the sitter yesterday and she informs me that I need to take her to the hospital. She is still standing and talking so I assume, correctly, that it is not an emergency. She says, "we need to do that one thing to my throat"...meaning a Strep test. One of the bonuses to working in the lab is free testing whenever wanted. I take her and do the test, which is negative, but she is still sick tonight. So, I will be spending tomorrow home with the poor child and nursing her better. (wait a gosh darn minute, I'm not a nurse. I guess I'll be loving her better. ) While at the same time peeling, slicing, blanching, bagging and freezing the bajillion carrots I have and catching up on the last two weeks of school, seeing as now I have the books. Guess I'll have to call into work sick.

Ahh the life of a mother/homemaker/lab tech/student.