Daddy’s Home! ~ Homeschool Week Wrap-Up

I am uber excited to guest post at The Modest Mom today and help Caroline find a bit of free time to write an e-book. The topic is Feminine Friday {in the style of Modest Monday} with plenty of pictures of my daughters. I would love if you visited today and followed her in some way. She has a terrific blog.

If you have arrived here from The Modest Mom, welcome! I’m a homeschooling mother of six who found modesty about ten years ago. {Within the next month, I’ll be sharing in a mini-series my testimony of my transition to skirts.}

I blog here about homeschooling and homemaking on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. For the past several weeks, the Monday post has been My Daughters’ Modest Monday, featuring {ta-da!} my daughters. Wednesday is a fill-in-the-blank. Friday is my homeschool mother’s journal, passing on encouragement and helpful hints as I share highlights of our week.

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And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming….

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Is it Friday already?

In my life this week…

Do you still have a Mother’s Day glow? While I napped in the afternoon, my children made this incredible lapbook/Mother’s Day card. 

The flowers are real, and the children have been drying them for quite a while!

And…my husband gave me the gift he asked me to order, since I’m the Lilla Rose consultant with the discount. A bit odd, perhaps, but it was still a thrill to open the package. J

The mega gift is that my husband is home for three weeks in between the spring and summer college semesters!

In our homeschool this week…

With less than twenty days of school left and now Daddy at home, it is like pulling teeth to get school done!

The 9yo is back to his mischief as well. The picture shows his *help* with the 7yo’s word search.

The 7yo was not amused!

Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…

We still had our library day, but my husband went with us this week. He loves to get down on the floor and play, so the 7yo had quite a chore trying to stay focused and complete her work before she could play.

My favorite thing this week was…

Listening to the 13yo practice a piece she’s playing in church on Father’s Day and watching the Littles dance to her music. Funny how *dancing* usually involves running in circles and somersaults. J

On the blog this week…

My Daughter’s Modest Monday ~ At Grandma’s ~~ We had lunch last Saturday with my mother, and she appears in the final picture of this post. I also asked for prayer for her struggle with macular degeneration.

Old-Fashioned White Bread in the Breadmaker ~~ Mmm. Mmm. Good. J

I’m cooking…

Ham, rice, and green beans in the crock pot. My husband threw on a thick layer of shredded Co-Jack cheese to melt on top in the last few minutes.

This was sooo easy! My hat is off to you ladies that use your crock-pot to its fullest advantage. I need to do more with mine.

Have a wonderful weekend!

How was your week? How was your Mother’s Day? Do you have any crock pot recipes to share?

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Old-Fashioned White Bread in the Breadmaker

I nearly cried when the lightning struck. No matter our efforts at resuscitation, our West Bend bread machine just wasn’t going to make it.

Have you had a kitchen help or appliance like that? You depend on it, use it, love it so much that when the end is nigh…well, would a funeral be improper?

Even though we had to get a different bread machine, we still had the recipe book. West Bend doesn’t make the same model so we ended up with something different entirely, but we can still use the same recipe for Old Fashioned White Bread.

This recipe is for a two-pound loaf and comes straight from the West Bend Automatic Bread & Dough Maker recipe book.

Ingredients:

13 ounces (1 ½ cups + 2 Tbsp.) milk, 80^oF

2 tablespoons butter or margarine

4 cups bread flour {I buy ours in 25lb bags from Sam’s Club.}

2 ½ tablespoons sugar

1 ½ teaspoons salt

2 ¼ teaspoons active dry yeast OR 2 teaspoons bread machine/fast rise yeast {I also buy yeast at Sam’s Club for an incredible price.}

Instructions:

Add liquid ingredients and butter to pan.

Add all dry ingredients, except yeast, to pan. Tap pan to settle dry ingredients, then level ingredients, pushing some of the mixture into the corners.

Make a well in the center of dry ingredients; add yeast. Lock pan into bread maker.

Program for basic setting and desired crust color and loaf size settings. Program time delay if being used. Turn bread maker on. When done, turn off, unlock pan and remove with oven mitts. Shake bread out of pan and cool on rack before slicing.

This size loaf serves our family of eight one breakfast.

Bon appetit!

What's your favorite recipe in the breadmaker?

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