Okay, so, this topic has been on my mind the last couple of days. I don't really know what brought it to my mind, but I think it had something to do with I realized how lucky and blessed I am. We have all been given so much, myself especially, and I just had to take a step back and appreciate it all. Now, I'm not just talking about the things I am grateful for, I am also talking about how everything around us is kind of awesome that it will just work for us with a touch a button, a flick of the switch. I am talking about how we can just pick up our phone, and it will call someone, send a text, take a video or picture or let us play a game with someone you don't even know, halfway across the world! I am talking about how you can turn your car on, and just drive wherever your heart desires! Just think about it, if one of the pioneers time traveled to 2014, they would be a little freaked out. I think that is what has gotten me thinking, that what if someone from the past came to the here and now; they would be so curious and mystified, whereas today, we just expect to have things work or go our way. This little thought has given me a whole new perspective. I know I am very lucky to have the things I have. Kyle and I live in a beautiful place with awesome landlords, we own our two cars, we don't have any debt at the moment, and we are able to buy things that we need to live. I really feel like the luckiest girl in the world. Truly, I do. I couldn't ask for anything better. I have awesome family, amazing friends, just all the people in my life, I know I wouldn't be able to live without. But especially I am grateful for my Husband, Kyle. He does so much for me, and loves me unconditionally. I love the Lord and I know that I wouldn't have all the things I do without him in my life. He is my Savior, my Redeemer, and I know that He is always there for not only me, but all of us.
For Christmas, one of my gifts was a food dehydrator. I had been looking forward to using it to make some fruit leather. Growing up, my mom used to make apricot fruit leather for us, and I wanted to try it out. My grandpa Stickney has a nice apricot tree and he let me come pick some to have. I took them home, cut them in half to get the pit out, and used my blender to make it into a purée. I just kind of tested it to see how much sugar it needed, making it sweeter if I thought it would be better, then I spread it on each dehydrator tray. After rotating the trays for about 5 hours I decided they were done. But turned out that wax paper was not the right choice to have the fruit leather on. :( Second try I used plastic wrap, and it turned out delicious!! I still had some more purée so I filled up my trays for a third time. After about an hour my dehydrator started making a weird noise. Kinda what a air mattress pump sounds like, aka not good. All of a sudden, the dehydrator stopped making any noise and won't turn on again. :( So basically those trays went to waste as well as the rest of my apricots. Sad day! But hopefully I can get it fixed or replaced soon! That dehydrator was pretty awesome up until it died. R.I.P. Dehydrator.
