Homemade Jam and Candied Figs

I'm not normally the type to play Home Ec'y Becky, but this year I took advantage of the $1/pint blueberries and made a batch of freezer jam with five pints and we devoured the other five pints fresh. You read right--I ain't to the point of canning anything yet! Speaking of homemaking skills, Alex and I also made a batch of candied figs this summer as well. Alex loves fresh figs but is enjoying the candied ones as well. He says they're chewy like raisins. My sister turned her nose up to them, but her little boy Dallin enjoyed smacking his lips chewing on them and kept asking for more!

Here's a couple of pics of Alex enjoying a PB & J with the blueberry jam smeared across his face--Joker smile revisited!