Bread in the Oven

or often a Bun

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Banana Muffins While chatting I mentioned what we were having for breakfast. Then I thought I should add a picture. I like recipes with pictures. I wanted all my recipes to have pictures but I don't remember or feel like it when we make the recipe. Here is the pic I added to the Banana Muffins recipe Last Friday I bought an Acer netbook. When I got my new desktop PC I was disappointed about how many things it couldn't do that I was used to be able to do. I worried the netbook would be worse but so far I'm happily surprised. I haven't used it much but it has WinXP and my desktop has Vista. Some of my older gadgets work with WinMe and XP but not Vista. Our printer is connected to an old WinMe computer. Vista needs to have the printer installed each time I use it. When it gets turned off the link is lost and any program that uses a printer slow down. I was going to say I could print but I had to restart the printer computer. Then I had 2 printers listed so had to delete one then start my word program Jarte again. I'll see next time. My desktop is very loud when it gets hot and it makes a lot of heat. The netbook is very quiet and doesn't heat up. I'm very tempted to attach my monitor and mouse to the netbook and leave my desktop off. I guess if I did that I would find out a bit better how well the netbook works. In case you wanted to see pics of kids and not muffins here is one of D. He is a wonderful sweet baby. He is almost always happy and smiling. Too bad he isn't great at sleeping lol. Pg wise I'm having my typical morning sickness. I'm a bit gaggier that the past few pg's but nothing like my early ones. I made my first appt with my ob for July 9th. He likes to see me at 8 weeks. I'll be 8w6d. I'm going to try to see if I can hear the hb before going. I heard it very clearly last time at 9w2d. I O'd 2 days later too so I won't worry if I can't find it. posted by ma @ 3:39 PM Comments for June Monday, June 22, 2009 Birthdays I finally updated my main site. I hadn't since last October. Usually I try to at least update the birthday month. M was visiting so I took a quick pic. I like how it turned out. M turned 18 so now I have 4 adult kids. I find that hard to believe lol. While taking pictures of Ro opening her presents I took this pic of D. He was happy to play with the paper. He is 9 mos and recently learned to get into a sitting position on his own. posted by ma @ 12:12 PM Comments for June Tuesday, June 16, 2009 Award Ceremony Last Thursday we went an Award ceremony at P's high school. I'm happy he won something but its long and hot usually. He's only our 5th. I can't imagine how I will feel when (if) D will one lol. We got there a bit late and the school parking lot and street were full so we went around back. Walking there made us even later. They had the grade 9 and 10's at the same time. It was more packed than usual, ugg. There was no room to go in the gym so I stayed outside with D. I could feel the heat radiated out of the gym. I'm glad I had an excuse not to go in. Luckily they handed the awards out as fast as possible. They started with the grade 9's so at least we didn't worry that we missed P's. I heard him get called. Dh tried to take a pic but the gym was dark. He won an award for English Achievement. I'm not exactly sure why. He said his teacher said he worked really hard. Getting an award is fun anyway. I weighed myself the morning after I got my bfp at 9dpo. I'm 255. I knew I had gained a lot of weight so I wasn't surprised. I'm happy it's not higher than my highest of 272. I was down to 213 after D was born. I haven't been able to exercise. My foot is sore from what is most likely from exercising and gaining weight quickly. I think I have plantar fasciitis. So far I'm still in ok shape. I can't think what kind of exercise I can do except swimming. Our pool is down and there are no pools close by. I feel good. Sure I'd rather weigh less but at least I'm not depressed. I have no idea what I will do in the future. D got his first 2 teeth 12 days ago. He is "comando" crawling. He is really fast. Yesterday he pulled himself up on his feet and he sat on his own. He is still a really happy baby. He doesn't sleep that well but since I'm not bf dh and I take turns getting up with him. posted by ma @11:32 AM Comments for June Wednesday, June 10, 2009 A Bun! I'm due February 12. I tested last week and got a very faint line but it passed the rules for any light, under 10 min and had colour. I decided to wait a week and test again. From the top is a digi OPK, Cdn $store, FRER, CBE, a Fertility Plan OPK, and a Babywishes. The FRER, CBE, and opk all showed up before the control. My new favourite test is the CBE. I got a line in the evening of 9 dpo. The next morning it was even darker while the FRER was so light I couldn't take a pic until I removed it from it's case. I never expected to get pg so fast. I had a couple cycles with short lp's then I got pg. I'm thrilled! posted by ma @ 11:06 AM 6/10/2009 Comments for June Tuesday, December 23, 2008 I'm Here (Never finished/uploaded long after) D is a great baby. I've gotten spoiled that I don't like to post when holding him. Usually I'm only on the computer when I'm too tired to do anything else or I'm nursing him so I'm not posting. He sleeps in his own bed from 12 to 6. The problem is that I can't cope with 6 hours sleep more than 1 night in a row. Once he wakes me up I feel like it's time to get up and can't fall back asleep for 2 hours. Reg gets up and lets me sleep which is nice but I feel out of it the rest of the day. I did post the gingerbread pic while tired and I ended up messing up the comments. I fixed it easily the next morning so its ok. I made the gingerbread house for Heejin, the toy store lady. She has 2 young kids and has been super busy with the December rush. I had no idea she was going to stick it in her store window! I would have worried a lot more about thing not being perfect lol posted by ma @ 5:06 PM 19/01/2005 Comments for December Friday, December 19, 2008 Gingerbread House Click on pic for larger version. posted by ma @ 11:47 PM 12/19/2008 Comments for December Friday, November 28, 2008 Sweater Yesterday while getting ready to go out I finally decided to try D's Dino sweater on him. It's perfect, just a little big. We were leaving late like usual so I had to wait till we got back to take a pic. Normally he isn't in the greatest mood after being stuck in the car then ignored while the car is being unloaded but Reg suggested just changing his diaper. Reg must be good because he was all smiles after that lol. posted by ma @ 6:40 PM 11/28/2008 Comments for November Friday, November 21, 2008 Videos At chat I mentioned buying an annoying talking and dancing chicken dressed up in a cmas tree costume. I looked on YouTube for it but could only find Elmo. Of course after I uploaded it I found it and not just the cmas one but one for every holiday, sigh. After uploading it I started to think I really should be making videos of D instead. So here you go. I'm using YouTube because I don't like how Quicktime made my page load really slowly. I kept thinking I would put them on different pages but I never got around to it. Not mad or anything but what's with all the anonymous comments recently? I'd post a rule but I hate it when people post rules that are obvious. When I see rules like that I tend to feel insulted :-P. I tested it out and it seems to be working. If you forget just post another. You can even email me or IM me and I'll fix it :-). I'm noisy and curious I'll admit but the same comment from a random stranger or a good friend will be taken differently. Oh if you left a comment recently but didn't leave your name could you tell me? I've been busy doing stuff I hadn't been up to doing the past few years. I've also been cooking more. D is very different from Tf. It's nice to have time to do stuff and its nice to have the energy to do it. Right now I'm actually sore from doing too much lol. We bought Outdoor Challenge for the Wii. I finally found an exercise that I enjoy! It has a mat that you have to run and jump on. Reg and I can play together. We seem to be taking turns at beating each other. The kids are also enjoying it. OK. Pics. Daryl wearing the outfit that started it all. Dh wanted to get them matching outfits. They didn't last long. Tiffany soaked hers. lol Usually its Daryl. posted by ma @ 7:48 PM 11/21/2008 Comments for November Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Title(oops not finished again) I never meant to leave the change of plan post up so long. I'm doing really well. I feel a lot better and have more energy. I've been getting stuff down around the house. I've also been fuzzy brained sleepy tired. D isn't like Tf at all. I'm able to do stuff but I wasn't getting enough sleep. Reg would get up in the morning and take D downstairs so I could sleep but then I'd wake up feeling like I had a nap. I also found the second comment annoying. Often if I feel like I should post any little thing will turn me off. I had made up my mind when I posted. I thought of asking for ideas but I didn't feel like I could explain how I was feeling. I never mentioned it because it hard to describe and I think people would have discouraged me from trying to lose had they known how bad I felt. To the second commenter, I don't need to know carrying weight has disadvantages. Arg. I'm right now about 50 lbs below my high weight of 272. I didn't have high bp or diabetes then and I don't expect gaining 10 or 15 lbs now is going to change anything except make my clothes tighter. I've had some issues with depression as a teen and when social services was involved with K. The depression I felt while dieting is similar but totally goes away as soon as I go off plan. I think its probably chemical as well as psychological. Since giving up I've noticed a few other changes. My hair has stopped falling out and my skin is no longer dry. I wasn't depressed before trying to lose weight and I'm not now. The depression was from the dieting. I'm a bit upset about gaining weight and I'd rather be thin but I'm not depressed about it. Looking back at nursing Tf I have to wonder if her fussiness was caused by my dieting. I had worried about her gaining but she always gained enough. Ch said she didn't remember her being fussy and I reminded her how hard it was for us to cut our hair one time. Ch forgot she was always like that it just that I was the one dealing with her lol. She was my only baby that ever had a big gain after starting solids or weaning Paula, I wish it was as simple as just not gaining. I'm still 50 under my high weight. In order to maintain my weight right now I would have to measure everything that I eat just like I did while I was trying to lose. I could eat a few more calories but everything else would be the same. Anyway enough of that. I had wanted to post pics. posted by ma @ 6:49 PM 11/16/2008 Comments for November Friday, October 31, 2008 Halloween (Forgot to post/finish) A little ghoul at the door. H really wanted to be a vampire this year. She's funny. She has been counting down the days till today for weeks. She tried to convince us that some years we "do" Halloween in the morning. I figured out she meant try on costumes. When we finally got them out late this afternoon she got on hers the was really bored after a few minutes lol. posted by ma @ 9:29 AM 11/11/2008 Comments for October Thursday, October 16, 2008 Change of plans (Started on Thurs but only posted on Sat.) Over the past year or so I kept saying I regret losing weight. My reason to lose weight was that I was having a lot of trouble doing simple things like showering. I would get breathless and feel like I would pass out. Doing anything was hard but I could stop and rest usually unlike a shower. I could see myself turning into one of those people that can't get out of bed. It was a scary thought. I decided it would be easier to diet the rest of my life than live like that. What I didn't know was that a few weeks of exercise would make showering easy again. At the time I was really surprised but still really motivated to stay on plan so I did. I started noticing that on plan I was getting withdrawn. Days I took off for holidays I was really happy. It got worse and worse. While pg this time I was on plan trying to only gain 25 lbs. I became really depressed. I started wondering why I bothered to get pg. I don't want to stop at 13 so it meant losing the pg weight just to gain it back soon. I even started questioning if it was worth living feeling like that. I decided it was nuts to avoid gaining weight if it was going to make me not want to live. Being fat is not that bad! While pg I thought I'd lose the weight afterwards. I remember thinking I would have worried less about weight gain with Tf if I knew how easy it was to lose after. It isn't hard to lose weight but as soon as I went back on plan I got depressed. Reg notices it too. I asked myself if I wanted this for the rest of my life and the answer is no. I know I have to keep exercising or I will end up in such bad shape again that I will have trouble showering. posted by ma @ 3:48 PM 10/18/2008 Comments for October Saturday, October 4, 2008 T's Birthday We celebrated T's 5th birthday on Wednesday They played hot potato. T opened presents. There was a lot of Playmobil sets to put together. We had fun. T wanted everything that was in a cardboard baby book on a birthday page. She wanted the same cake and snacks and even the same present, a teddy bear. We didn't pay attention at first but she kept on insisting. We had bought her all the new Playmobil circus sets but we knew she's be disappointed with no bear. Luckily the toy store had a perfect one. It was perfect too. T loves it and it got many ohhs and ahhs when it was pulled out of the bag. She also asked for sundaes just like in the book. The cake. She wanted the same cake too but asked to have dogs on it. She also wanted to decorate it but was happy to make a box cake with Dad and let me do the frustrating part. The cake turned out soft and crumby. I tried using a jarred icing but it was too sticky and runny. I ended up making a cooked butter icing and piping it on the cake. She was happy and so was I. posted by ma @ 11:04 PM 10/4/2008 Comments for October

pg. days till the Bun is ready! About Me I'm ma, a Canadian sahm to 13 and married to Reg for 23 years. I bake all our bread and bread products. I would like to have more children (or buns in the oven ;-). I like to chart my cycles and obsess over the details. Contact Me My E-mail Page 31341001 on ICQ cmd on AIM cmd on Yahoo mabread@hotmail. com on MSN at irc.chatnet.org on IRC Previous Posts Change of plans T's Birthday Archives July to Sept 2008 May/June 2008 Mar/Apr 2008 Jan/Feb 2008 July-Dec 2007 Jan-June 2007 Oct-Dec 2006 Aug/Sept 2006 June/July 2006 Oct '05-April '06 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 Jan/Feb 2005 Nov/Dec 2004 Sept/Oct 2004 July/Aug 2004 Links My website is .info My TTC chart LOK Weight Loss and Healthy Living Board My Recipe Index Blogs I read TOK Blogs Our Deer Baby Musing, Rambling and All Around Blathering thejoyofsix A House Full of Boys