Happy Birthday Daniel!

Nothing says you're two like a watermelon shark. Oh yeah. He loved it!

Hey Mom! I've Got Dirt in my Hair!

Except he didn't actually say that. But I did watch Daniel dump a cupful of black dirt on his own head right before I was about to serve dinner. So instead of cleaning him up, we ate our chilli outside. Yum.

WONDERful Bread

I just made an awesome loaf of white bread. Now I don't usually make white bread but I am out of whole wheat flour until tuesday. I am reading a great book called "Bread Matters" and I am fascinated by the history of good home made bread to what we consider bread at the grocery store. My loaf was from the recipe in the book... 4 ingredients: flour, water, salt, yeast. That's all it takes! So I looked up Wonder Bread just to compare: 11 ingredients and 3 more ingredients it may contain. WHAT!?! Now I know it has to last a while on the shelf, and making my own bread does take up a lot of time... But I am seriously beginning to question all these extra ingredients we are ingesting. Oh, and I slathered my fresh bread with my own raspberry-pear jam for lunch. Yum.

What You Need...

"What you need is a cookie!" said Beaver. "You can solve any problem with a cookie." (from "Boo Hoo Bird" by Jeremy Tankard)