Wheat grinding, bread lovers!

Last year, a talented friend of mine invited Lisa and I over for lunch and offered sandwiches on her homemade bread, bread that was made with her own ground wheat. It was so delicious! I was hooked and loved the idea of grinding my own wheat. So she gave me her recipe and let me borrow her electric wheat grinder and I bought 50 lbs of hard wheat and had so much fun trying to make this yummy bread. Than Becca moved to Canada (sad day--we miss you guys!) and obviously took her wheat grinder with her. So I contemplated buying a grinder for myself, but couldn't decide if I wanted an electric one or a hand crank model. A few weeks ago I finally decided to go with the hand crank and after a little research, we bought the Family Grain Mill. It definitely takes more time and more muscle to grind wheat than the electric grinder, and you have to run it through twice to get it as finely ground, but I think it's going to work out just fine. Lisa wanted a turn and gave her little muscles a good work out. Even Ryan wanted a turn. Considering I'll probably only make bread once a week it shouldn't be too bad having to do it by hand. And the bread is still delicious! Thanks again to Becca for getting me started with wheat grinding and bread making. 

April and Mark are back!

After being in Egypt for 2 1/2 years, it is very good to have April and Mark back in the States. Lisa certainly had a lot of fun when they stopped for a visit on their way to their new place in Colorado. She was so silly and wired that night.

My new babysitter?

Those of you who know Lisa well know that she just does not have the attention span for movies or TV. She never has. She'll watch for maybe 5-10 minutes and move on to something else. Well...we were at the video store and she said she wanted a movie too so we got her Strawberry Shortcake and she watched the whole thing! It had to have been at least 45 minutes long. She seemed very interested and concerned about the story line (what little of it there was). It was fun to see her get into it. We'll definitely have to work on her proximity to the TV if she really is becoming more interested in it. 6 inches is a little close.