Homeade Bread

Yesterday I made sourdough baugettes.

A miracle in the fact that I managed to revive my sourdough starter from 5 solid months of negect.

Then another miracle happened.

Jupiter asked if she could try my bread.

Then she liked the bread!

As a rule, she does not eat anything I make from scratch, with the exception of pancakes.

Then she said she would only eat bread that I make from now on.

Yikes. That's a lot of baking.



sourdough baugette recipe: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/ultimate-sourdough-baguettes-recipe

Question of the Day

Is it possible to remove dried sparkly nail polish from hair?


update: sissors work. She wasn't too pleased with the hair removal. I did not cut more than I had too.

Natural consequences.

Overheard today

"Mom, when can I study history?"

(Mom)- Any time you want. What is it that you want to learn about? We'll look it up for you."

Pause.

"You know....Rudolph went down in history!"

Photopost Friday-Scenes from the Garden

alternative pay scales

Today at work, I decided I would like to get paid by the keystroke. If Charles Dickens was paid by the word, I don't see why it can't work, really. I wonder what a 1 percent raise would be in keystroke?

Three or four years ago, I remember wanting to be paid by the staple. But I don't staple anything anymore. The stapler is just a fancy desk decoration. I bought my own personal stapler because the stapler that came with my desk wouldn't actually staple anything.

Today I asked Jupiter if she had anything planned for my birthday tomorrow. Just so I would know if I had to bake myself a cake or anything like that. Jupiter said she wants to go shopping together for my birthday because the only time we get to go shopping together is to buy food. L But she doesn't actually want to buy anything for me for my birthday. She would be okay with buying things for her. She loves things. Any Things. It doesn't have to be anything in particular. Just a Thing. But before we got out of the car tonight she gave me a very nice heart picture today that she drew. :)

The moon is still a bitty crescent sliver.

It's COLD. It was about 30 degrees at 4pm this afternoon and the temperature had dropped 5 degrees before I got home. Sunny this afternoon...I found a sunny window at lunch and fortunatly today nobody came along and closed the shade on me. Because seriously, we get sunlight (if it happens to be sunny in the first place) for 6 hours a day right now. Why on earth would you want to close the shades and BLOCK the sun when it is out? I love sun.

moonrise

I forgot I wanted to post about the beautiful crescent moonrise we saw on the way home. And I love how Jupiter always notices stuff like that, even when I feel permanently stuck in fast forward.

My girl is BAACK

Only at home though. School was fine. It's astounding how very quickly fatigue can affect her behavior choices. She had lots of mean voice for me tonight.

And I tried to cook supper. On the stove. More ambitious than the usual microwaved leftovers I usually do. I put water on to boil while I went to start Jupiter's shower. She wanted to take her shower by herself. Instead of giving her free reign with the shampoo bottles (because I need some in the morning) I put shampoo in one dixie cup, conditioner in another dixie cup, and showed her which bottle was the body wash.

Thank heavens she wanted to take the shower by herself (so not typical). I got back to the kitchen and found that I'd turned on the wrong burner, so that instead of a pot of boiling water I was melting three plastic spoons on my ceramic cooktop.

That smelled nice. Jupiter appeared half naked to ask what the smell was. I turned on the vent fan and opened the kitchen windows wide lest we die of plastic smell poisoning. Fortunately the kitchen didn't burn down. Made macaroni and cheese for me and chicken noodle soup and peanut butter toast for Jupiter (acceptable supper number one. She hates mac and cheese).

Hyouter appeared in the kitchen naked and dragged me back to the bathroom so I could "help" her get dressed. Then she decided she could do it herself and kicked me out. Then she decided she needed help. Then she crawled into bed and wanted to stay there, but I refused to spoon feed her soup in bed ( I did say if she wanted to stay in bed she could have the toast and her usual yogurt and banana). But she got up to eat some soup and half her toast.

Then we read. We're reading Ramona the Brave right now. Ramona doesn't like first grade either. Jupiter identifies with Ramona. She talked me into an extra chapter. I love story time. Sometimes I read for 45 minutes. She snuggles with me and we're generally not having any battles. What's not to like?

Anybody know how to get the remnants of plastic spoon off ceramic cooktop?

Maine weather: same as yesterday. And I thought the weather update would be interesting. HA HA HA