Ok people this one is gonna be another long one... It's been one of those days!!!
Can I just say AAAARRRGGGHHHHH!! As my kids repeatedly will say practically everyday when they dont get their own way:(This is the worst day ever!!)
I had this brilliant idea that I would make some homemade wheat bread and I have never made homemade bread since I was like 14 and I helped my mom once. I always have used my bread machine but with all this stress over food storage and being prepared I wanted to see if I could do it if I had to do it the old fashion way so I decided to use a friends recipe well her husbands recipe she posted on her blog. It looked so good in her pictures.. It was supposed to be made with a bread mixer but I figured I could do it by hand. It makes 6 loafs so I went and got all the stuff I would need and spent most of the day making it up.. Tonight we had alot of things going on. We had pack night for scouts and I also had activity days at the same time so I knew that I had to get everything done at a decent time so we could eat and get to the church on time.
Well forget that!!!!! After I had put the bread into the loaves to rise I waited an hour and they still were not rising so I got this idea to warm up the oven then shut it off and put a shallow pan of hot water on the bottom rack and stick the loaves in and see if it would make them rise.. After about another hour they did finally rise and looked pretty good however it was time to get my dinner cooked and we were already way behind and I knew we were going to be late.
So I took the loaves out thinking oh I will let them raise a little more while dinner is cooking then stick them back in to cook. So I took them out and set them on the counter and within a min or two they all sunk and flattened out. I was so mad I just couldnt believe it.. All that time and now they had just flattened right out.. There was nothing I could do so I knew I needed to get them cooked now or they wouldnt be done in time before I had to go to the church so I slid the loaves in around dinner and put a couple on the bottom rack of the oven. When they all were nicely browned I took them out but the one on the bottom rack burned along the bottom and sides and the rest turned out pretty good other then they were squatty little bricks.. They did however still taste pretty good I must admit.. But they definently were not pretty by any means. I was hoping to give some away to some friends but I guess I wont be doing that now.. I am not sure if my house was to cold so they didnt have a warm area to rise or just what because my yeast was brand new so it couldnt have been that. Anyways I was pretty dissapointed.. My little loaves were the only ones that turned out somewhat decent.. I never put them in the oven to rise I just let them rise on their own for about 2 hrs or so.
Then of course my kids wouldn't hurry and eat and then Austin couldnt find his scout shirt that was hanging in his closet, then we couldnt find his neckerchief and clasp. He's only had it for 2 weeks and already he has lost it.. I think he left it at the church last week and we checked lost and found but nothing, so now we have to go buy another one.. And of course we were stuck in traffic trying to get onto the freeway it took us 15 mins to go 2 blocks. I was so flustered by the time I got to the church I just wanted to scream.. Then for activity days we made scripture cookies and the oven was very slow in cooking so we went way over for our meeting waiting for the cookies to get done and we were waiting for the last final batch so the girls could have 1 to eat because the other ones were supposed to go to someone as a service, and as I was taking it out of the oven I dropped one edge and the whole pan of cookies slid off the sheet and fell onto the door of the oven so I had a big pile of mushed cookies.. I was so ready to cry at this point. I just wanted to crawl in a hole and never come out.
Then oh wait yes there is more.............. I live about 15-20 min for church so we are about half way home and my son says oh I left my scarf at church so we had to turn back around and go all the way back to get it. So by the time we got home it was 9:30 and my kids still had to take their baths and get into bed hoping they can even get out of bed in the morning at 5:45.
So this was my day!! I swear this could have led me to drinking!! LOL I think the reason Im not handeling all this to well is I have also been without my hormones for 4 days because I have been to busy to run down to the pharmacy to pick them up so I am going through all this with crazy hormonal mood swings and hot flashes as well.. Someone just kill me now PLEASE!!!! LOL I know that was probably more info you didnt want or need to know!!
Sorry for rambling on so long I just had to tell someone about my crazy day..
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