Homemade Bread

We've been making our own bread for the last couple of weeks. I always thought bread would be tricky but it's actually super easy. And very satisfying. Tastes better than the supermarket stuff too. We've been using this recipe.

We don't have a bread maker, so we do it by hand, but even then it's not hard and probably only takes 30 mins all up.

This is what the finished product looks like. We made a few loaves and froze them, then defrosted them overnight when we knew we'd need them in the morning. The best bit though is eating it fresh, straight from the oven!

Tablets

I've been teaching the boys the bible story of Moses being given the Ten Commandments by God. We've been roleplaying it with the Story Bears, which has been lots of fun.

I asked Hamish the other day if he could remember what God gave Moses on the mountain.

He replied "vitamin tablets!"

I guess he was half right!

Adventures with worms

We've been digging up an area of our garden to turn it into a vege patch, and in the process, finding lots and lots of worms. A while ago, Mum gave me a worm kit and they appear to have set up home very successfully in our dirt. There are long thin ones that are very wriggly, and big fat ones that are much more sedate.

The boys really like them, but I've had to start downplaying the worms. This decision was made not long after Hamish proudly told me 'Look Mum, I've made lots of worms!', a feat sadly achieved by pulling one worm into four pieces. Ouch.

And there was the time Michael held up two halves of the one worm and told me 'broke!'

And lastly, there's Hamish's idea that worms are for keeping. In his room. He runs off with them, then tells me to come and see the worm in his room - I follow him in, and there's a small pile of dirt on the carpet with a (thankfully alive) worm on top.