Although we have only started milking last weekend I have been using the
colored circles and the "y's" and "k's". The "y" stands for yogurt and the "k" stands for kefir. I feel that it's been long enough to give an update to see how they are working for our family.
So far I've only had one problem with this system....I don't have enough of them!!! Ha! I have plenty of the plain colored circles, probably too many, though they will come in handy should we loose any. I did not have enough of the y's and k's. Being that I had a large batch of yogurt in my dehydrator, and not enough y's to go around I took action. As I thought more on it I realized how much easier things are to label, and that I should have more of these labels handy for some of my other milk type products. I was trying to stick with one color per day for the milk and one color for the other milk products (yogurt, kefir, etc). I did not have any more brown paint chip cards so I decided to make due with what I had.
It didn't take too long to make the circles, cut them out and write what was needed on them. I then laminated them, and after cutting out the magnets from the magnet sheet, Jonah attached the magnets to the back of them. I was a little bummed that some of the marker smudged. I really wasn't up to using a permanent marker, like I did the last time, as I don't like their smell. So I went with regular kiddo markers. Oh, well, they will still work!
So here is a shot of my current stash of labels:
Lots of y's! I made some for coconut kefir, animal kefir, villii (a room temp culturing yogurt), whey, coconut milk, coconut/nut milk, and one for starters. There's nothing quite like opening your fridge to see a bunch of glass jars with white stuff in them and not exactly knowing what is in each! Problem solved. Although masking tape works great, I would have to actually find said tape and find a pen...every. single. time. Not fun. This is working like a dream for us!
Ok, so there is the problem of them all staying in their proper place. But, still better than hunting down tape and pen. The girls did not know I had made new labels. One of them went into the fridge for some yogurt and proclaimed we were out of it. I told her there was no way we were out of yogurt as I had just made up a large batch. I told her to look for the jars with the y's on them. She was thrown off because she was looking for a brown circle. As you can see I have them in purplish colors now.
This picture and the ones that follow have nothing to do with my labels :-) Just some pictures I took before I put my camera away after taking the label pictures. Flannery and Saoirse have set up a drawing station at the desk. They sit on the opposite side that you are supposed to. We have wide window sills, and they use those for seats.
Saoirse at work.
Flannery has been very much into tracing pictures and coloring them in.
Isabella was sitting on the couch across from the desk working on her math...until her little brothers convinced her to draw them some pictures of helicopters, dinos, cars and such.
Flannery's notebook that she insisted I take a picture of. Oh, look! A pencil sharpener! We only have five pencil sharpeners in our house. They either don't work, the batteries are dead, or they are lost. This does not bode well with 7 kiddos using pencils and no pencil sharpener.
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