bread and binki's

You know how I mentioned I have been baking in my sweet kitchen? I might have even said that I have been making bread?  Well, I have been trying to make bread, is probably more truthful. I tried one batch and it looked good, tasted pretty good but was so dry you couldnt choke it down with a whole glass of milk. The next batch looked pretty but wasnt cooked all the way. The next time I forgot the salt and there was a giant hole in the middle of it....so I was getting pretty annoyed. I have a friend that makes beautiful bread so I asked if I could come watch. She invited me to come over today at 10:30 for the lesson. Well I was suppose to go to a playgroup at 9:30 but I have found it nearly impossible to to make it out of the house by that time in the morning with kids fed, clothed, diaper changed (yes we reverted back to diapers......for today anyway. I love the surprise of whether it will be a diaper or underwear every day...you just never know when Jacey is in charge. its very exciting), hair done, diapers packed, etc. so we skipped playgroup which was lame last time anyway and went straight to my friends house for the bread making lesson. Turns out, in order to make her perfectly 100% whole wheat beautiful bread I will need a wheat grinder, whole white wheat, and a Bosch mixer. Sooooo back to my own fussing over the original recipes I had. Maybe something magical will happen in the year 2013 - the year of the bread perfecting. I'll let you know how it goes.

Concerning the bink. I decided to get rid of Jacey's binki because it was becoming such a pain. She could only have it when she went to bed but she started to cry all the time because she wanted it. She would hide one somewhere so she could have it whenever she wanted it. She would pretend like she was going to take a nap but then I would find her hiding and playing in my cubby in the closet just so she could suck on it. In the car, she would cry loud and long enough that we would just do anything to make her stop. Anyhow, we went to the store to have her pick out a baby doll she wanted and said she couldnt open it till she threw her binki's in the garbage. When she decided she wanted the doll bad enough, she cut up her binki and we gave her the doll. It has gone better then I thought. She cried, but Rustin told her we would have to take her baby back to the store and that her "baby binki" (as she calls it as it was the substitute) needed Jacey to be her mom and take care of her and that worked for awhile. Every morning when I'm in the shower, I come out to find that she has ran-sacked my room trying to find her bink in all the usual places. All the drawers emptied, laundry baskets over-turned, shoes scattered - its awesome. She has cried off and on and wakes up earlier then usual and wont take naps very well but other then that, not too bad. The cutest thing was when we heard her crying and Rustin went downstairs and sat by the door to listen and he heard her crying for her binki and he heard Tyce who was mostly asleep softly say " Jac, its ok" and then she quit crying and went back to sleep. So cute. He was been such a nice big brother lately. Anyhow, hopefully we will continue to adjust but good rid-dens to the dang bink.