Tuesday Morning
I went to bed around 10 last night and fell asleep with the television still on which is something I have not done for a long time. And so, of course, I was awake at 3 am. Fortunately, I managed to get back to sleep after turning on the light and reading for a while. I got up at 7:30 am which is a reasonable time, I think.
Yesterday I spent an hour with Robin, the adult student I am tutoring, and today at 1 pm, I go back for another hour. She was so frantic because in addition to me being away, she has been sick and missing days on and off for two weeks and so has a huge pile of work to get caught up on. One thing she was very pleased about is that she had a writing assignment handed in that I had not helped her with at all and she made an A and got a favorable comment from the instructor. She told me how much I was helping her yesterday and I told her how much I was enjoying teaching her. She is learning to explain her ideas to me with much more confidence than she was doing when we first started. Then I had to dig and dig with questions and now she will jump in and explain what her thinking was.
I am trying a new bread recipe today. It is a whole-wheat sunflower and sesame seed recipe. It calls for cumin seeds but we only have ground cumin so I tried a little of that. So, we shall see. I just asked Fred if he would prefer a white or a brown loaf for the second one I will make today, and he said white so that is what it will be. I feel quite guilty about saying *I* am making the bread when it is really the clever machine which is doing all the work. All *I* do is measure out the ingredients!
Making two different loaves in one day is working well for us. It gives us variety and means that I only need to make bread once every two to three days. Not that it such a chore. Fred timed me with the white loaf the other day and from getting the ingredients out of the cupboard, measuring them and turning on the bread machine was a whole 10 minutes!
Until later…
having a bread maker sounds like a wonderful thing. your place must smell heavenly! take care,
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I really must use our breadmaker more often, it is SO good.
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Hey you still have to measure the ingrediants so yes it counts as making bread !
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Haven’t been to your actual diary for a little while; I love that new photo of you on the front page! You look wonderful! My oldest son stuttered too, and I’m sad that he still has problems with it. He took speech therapy for a time, but quit. I guess he just deals with it as best he can, I guess we all have to learn our own methods. Thanks for your note on the subject.
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Hey, arguing whether “you” make the bread or the machine does is just semantics! Even if “you” made it from “scratch” then you could say the “oven” made it. I think it’s fabulous! You’ve also got me nearly convinced to get a bread machine, just from talking about it here! I also think I could learn much from your teaching abilities. It was nice of you to meet Robin on short notice.
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yummy!
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do you have a yummy squaw bread recipe ?? It’s may favorite. I have a bread machine but so far have only used those pre-mixed bread packages…
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I happened across you in another diary…and was tickled to find another middle school teacher! By choice even! I teach 6, 7 AND 8! I like your phrase “Lion Tamer”! That’s sure what it feels like some days!!
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I would not have the self control you do if I had homemade bread fresh from the oven (breakmaker)to tempt me.
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Every time I read about your adventures with the breadmachine, it simply makes my mouth water.
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Making bread is work, even if you have a machine do all the hard labour for you. I told Rob how to make bread with the machine but all the little things you learn from practice and having made bread the hard way weren’t there. His dough must have been far too wet because his buns looked like oatmeal cookies! hahahaha
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Maybe you could share one of your favorite bread machine bread recipes with us?
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that bread does sound so delicious….have you ever tried making bread with carraway seeds? Its very yummy !!!! take care
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I may have to invest in a bread maker. I love bread so much and it even sounds like fun.
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: ) *huggs* don’t feel guilty, you are the one putting in the ingrediants not the machine.
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