Baking

We have been busy here lately. Dave and Hailey are in school, I am juggling my side jobs amongst Dave's 2 part-time jobs, but we still find time to enjoy baking and to make memories in the kitchen! Yesterday the kids and I made bread with cheese in the middle (it was just as good as it sounds, in case you are wondering) and with the extra dough, at Hailey's request, made a gingerbread man and baked it. She loved it! And the best part is it is healthy! :) There is something invigorating about grinding your own wheat to make bread. We also baked sugar cookies and decorated them. I have decided that the process of making and decorating cookies is what the kids enjoy the most, so I don't feel bad about throwing them all away when we are done. In my quest to be healthy and lose weight, I look at the cost of making the cookies as "entertainment", we pay for things all the time and don't take anything home. So instead of eating all those calories, we make memories!

(Grandma came home from school to enjoy the mess of it all!)