Strawberry Jam

We visited our friends at Marcum Farms in Waco over the Memorial Day weekend, and brought home gallons of sweet strawberries! After distributing a good portion of them around the family, we had about 2 1/2 gallons left, and on Wednesday night we decided we needed to do something with these beauties, so jam it was!

My mother in law was smart and made freezer jam. We used the water bath canner for ours - we made four batches - that is A LOT of waiting for water to boil! It was 12:30 am when we finally were finished and collapsed into bed.

But aren't they beautiful? 45 jars in all.

On a side note; our hearts go out to the poor girl who laid this egg. It's the biggest one any of us had ever seen; I can't even close the carton around it!