Every Monday is our baking day. It feels like a good way to start out the week. I am making potato-leek soup for the first time and decided to give it another go at baking bread. I made two loaves of rye-oatmeal bread. There is something so soothing about making bread from scratch. The kids love punching it down, kneading it, and helping me shape it. As much as I love involving the "chids", I have to take many deep breaths as K purposely knocks flour on the floor, or C puttings an extra teaspoon of salt in for good measure. My last few loaves were not that good, which is why I haven't made any bread for months now. But I am hopeful about these loaves. Side note: I fell asleep on accident while putting the kids down for a nap, and my mom (who hasn't come upstairs for a while due to a recent injury) came up and took out my loaves. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MOM. Nothing worse than waking up to burnt bread.
Between games of chase around the house and dress up, C said to me: We are baking? Let's bake granola bars! So while our dough was rising we whipped out these healthy, yummy oat bars.
I think between swimming and baking I officially wiped my kids out. They have both been napping for 1.5 hours. Snuggled together in the same bed. And Kate is swimming, full on swimming. She kicks her little heart out, paddles like theres no tomorrow, and enjoys every second of it.
Mondays have been good to me.
Have a great week!
2 comments:
I love Mondays. The house smells great on baking day and swim lessons are always so much fun.
That bread looks hearty and yummy!
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