Bread

I am excited that we will be having fresh bread with our lunch today. Actually, I think that we will have pb&j sandwiches made out of fresh bread. I used this recipe because of all the good reviews on it and because it makes three loaves.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/simple-whole-wheat-bread/detail.aspx

If the bread turns out like I hope it will, I am planning on using it as we travel to help lower the cost of our eating out expenses. I am getting very impatient for it to finish rising - it has to rise three times! I'm just going to peek at it one more time then I will leave it alone for a bit. Lol!

Grinding wheat

I keep reading about people who hand mill their flour and think that I want to try it. I am a little afraid of the investment of money and time involved, the grinder is very pricey! I think I would like to try it at first with a coffee grinder. I am afraid that I will get the stuff and not be able to keep up with the needs of my family. What if they don't want to eat regular bread anymore?! I really like the idea of it though... $65 is a huge part of my grocery budget, but it would last a long time. I think I want to try it, now to convince my husband that it is a good idea...

Dine

I really am very tired of the attitude! Yesterday I turned in my keys at school I am done. During the brief meeting that I sat through and the lunch afterward, my clueless principal (nice guy, totally doesn't get it) inferred no less than 5 or 6 times that I now have no purpose, no meaning, no higher calling in my life. When did being a stay at home mom lose it's validity? What is it about devoting my time to the service of my family that riobs my life of meaning? Why will I be bored? I was a stay at home mom for eight years before teaching two years and I can't recall ever being without something to do... Lonely? Yes! Tired? Yes! Bored? No way! I could try to excuse his remarks as being those of a man ignorant in the ways of family as he is divorced and has lived alone for years. I know that he probably had very little to do with the raising of his children, but there are many others that hold the same views that know better. At what point did feminism get such a hold on even the conservative Christian base in our country that stay at home mothers became the people with the lowest status? Is it not God-pleasing to spend your efforts training up your children, caring and providing for them and leading them in the path that they should go? Take it from this unemployed girl, I have plenty to do, my life still has significant meaning and way less stress, and no I won't be wishing I had all the stress of teaching back come next August. Maybe I will get a part time teaching job to aid with tuition and funding college funds, but knowing now the traps that are out there, you will not find me so eager to sell so much of my time away from my family ever again.
Now since I have a firm hold on this soapbox, I had better go switch the laundry...