KBC Easter Party

We made it back from the beach just in time for KBC's Children's Easter Party the weekend before Easter.  This has been such a fun event the past few years and this year was no exception.  (Last year's egg hunt is here. Good gracious how Clara has grown in a year!)   The kids made crafts, heard stories, played games, ate snack and had a great Easter egg hunt.  Thankful for these special memories of fun time with our church community and the ways they nurture our kids.  I took a whole lot of photos, but I'll mostly just share the ones with Clara in them.

 

 A big thanks to these two who made it all happen!:

Strawberry Jam

One of my favorite memories from childhood is eating my mama's hot sourdough bread (some of y'all know what I'm talking about, right?) with homemade strawberry jam on it.   Sinfully delicious.  It's been a long time since we'd made any of that jam, but after our Mother's Day trip to pick strawberries, we thought that was the perfect thing to do with all the berries we picked!  As always, Clara was an excellent kitchen helper.

Mash 'em and pour 'em...

 Stir in the pectin and the sugar...

 And to the freezer, they go!  Fresh (tasting) summer strawberries all year long!  Yippee!!