Best Bread Machine Bread Recipe

We bought a used bread machine at a yard sale this weekend and were just dying to try it out. Saturday morning, after breakfast, Hailey and Trevor tried it out. We happened upon an extremely easy recipe and bread turned out fantastic!

Best Bread Machine Bread
Prep time 10 minutes
Cook time - 40 minutes
Ready in - 3 hours
Serves - 12
Yields - 1 to 1 1/2 pound loaf


Ingredients

• 1 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 (.25 ounce) package bread machine yeast
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 3 cups bread flour
• 1 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Place the water, sugar and yeast in the pan of the bread machine. Let the yeast dissolve and foam for 10 minutes. Add the oil, flour and salt to the yeast. Select Basic or White Bread setting, and press Start.               

Nutritional Information

Amount Per Serving Calories: 174 | Total Fat: 5.2g | Cholesterol: 0mg

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Our New Pillow Pet Plush

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Here are some pictures of the girls with their new pillow pet plush. THANK YOU Grandma and Grandpa Winder & Ben, Daniel and David!  We love you guys!  We feel so blessed to have you in our lives.

 

Ready to open gifts!

Brooklyn's room is lady bugs and she LOVES red and black!

So happy!

What's in here?

Hailey LOVES horses and Unicorns. Perfect fit there.

Great gifts for the girls!  They will love them.  I'll probably invest in the matching pillow pets now... : )

So excited, she fell down! HA!

 

 

 

Tina Winder
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to appreciate them until its to late?~~~
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Phew!

What a rough couple of weeks we've had here.  Now the girls and the parents are feeling better.  Thankfully!  We are working on getting the house back to normal since everyone was sick no one wanted to do silly things like pick up after themselves.  Once we get the "just put it away" mentality back into everyones brains I will feel more at ease.  Until then, it's a never ending battle to keep the counter and table cleaned off.  We have a tiny dishwasher, which I am grateful for, don't get me wrong, but it gets run AT LEAST once a day, leaving a pile of dishes in the sink all the time.  One of these days I'll be completely on top of everything and not feel the stress of a messy kitchen.  It's not in my nature to have a mess, so I'm constantly picking up and cleaning off everything, and rarely ahead of the game.  That's just the way it goes when you're a stay at home mom I suppose.  I know my friends Jill and Crystal are reading this and nodding their heads in agreement. LOL!

Christian home preschool has taken a back seat to our sickness.  We are lovingly call it our spring break... hee hee!  We are getting back to that today too.  Why not yesterday you ask?  I had to do grocery shopping, which literally took all day.  Trevor and I started watching the Extreme Couponing show on TLC and have decided to work on getting a much free and cheap things that we can REASONABLY contain in our home and garage to sustain our family.  If it's possible, why not?  We have a little bit of room for these types of things and it would be wonderful to get things we use all the time for next to nothing, or even free.  This has consumed most of the nights and the girls naptimes, but I feel it will ultimately be worth all the effort.  In fact, yesterday I saved $28 at WalMart, $65 at Albertsons, and $42 at Safeway.  And I spent, out of pocket a total of $8.00.  So it was a great trip!!!

Well, that being said, time to empty the dishwasher (again!) and switch the laundry to the dryer so I can start another load.  Oh yea, and I should probably tend the the children and work on that home preschool with Hailey too, and then gracefully whip up some lunch... All in a days work! ;)

Mrs. Sick, Mr. Sick and the Whole Sick Family

What a stinkin' week!  The girls have had a cold since Sunday, and a pretty nasty one at that.  Poor kids!  Hailey and Brooke both have wet coughs and runny noses.  Brooke's cough is so sad, just sounds like there is a lot of stuff stuck in her chest.  So I hauled Brooke out to the doctor Tuesday, and they diagnosed her with a sinus infection and prescribed antibiotics. I was feeling good about getting her better.  Then Trevor came home with this disturbing story of a friend of a friend whose 8 month old daughter died in her sleep from pneumonia.  Probably not a great story to tell the mother of a sick 6 month old.  I brushed it off, thinking it was terrible, but they listened to Brooklyn's chest and said her lungs were clear. 

Wednesday Hailey woke up from her nap saying "I feel like I have a yawn stuck in my ear".  We blew her nose and she proceeded to cough until throwing up all over me.  I was sitting on the couch at the time and all I could think about was not getting throw up in the many cracks and creases of the couch.  I know, I'm getting thrown up on and I'm worried about my couch, nice right?  But seriously what a nightmare that would be to have to disassemble your couch to be sure that all of the puke is out of the cracks?  And the smell that would have made...ICK! Such a mom, I guess.  Wednesday night both Hailey and Brooke were coughing so hard and so often, it was sad!  We put saline spray in both girls noses, put Baby B Chest Rub on both girls chests and backs, and set them both up with vaporizers.  When Brooke fell asleep she was making a strange noise.  So Trevor and I decided she would sleep with me with a vaporizer while he slept on the couch... the pneumonia story still fresh in my mind I decided this was an excellent idea.  No one slept well Wednesday night, too worried about both kids.  I kept checking Brooke to make sure she was still breathing.  So stressful to literally fear that your kid might not wake up, I knew the nurse practitioner said she would be fine, but I was still stressed. 

Thursday morning we all were tired, but the girls seemed slightly better.  But something inside me was just thinking, what if we have another terrible night?  What if we don't have a second opinion on Brooke and Hailey looked at?  Will I have another stress filled night?  So I took the girls to the Grande Ronde Hospital ER with the help of my mom.  I was so happy when they called us back after only 5 minutes in the waiting room.  They were very thorough and we had an excellent doctor.  He evaluated each girl separately and gave me a better understanding of their colds. Brooklyn sounds so bad because she can't clear her throat, it just sits there and she coughs it up or chokes on it.  Makes sense.  Hailey has wheezing... uh oh! One chest x-ray later she is diagnosed with Restrictive Airway Disease.  She needs an inhaler every 4 hours as needed to help her cough and open those restricted airways.  Other than that, it 's just a virus and we just need to push the fluids and rest.  AWESOME! 

So today we are doing just that, and will continue to push the fluids and rest all weekend.  Poor kids.  I'm sure the Emergency Room was an over reaction, but when it comes to the health and overall well being of your children I suppose you cannot go wrong with a second opinion.  After all, I now have little fear of Brooklyn not waking up, and I actually got a little sleep last night.  I also know Hailey will probably not throw up on me again... at least for a little while. 

Happy Birthday my Friend

Today is the 29th birthday of my beautiful and wonderful best friend Crystal.  I have known Crystal since 1994!  How can this be?  How is it possible that we have remained friends for such a long time?  More than half of our lives we've been friends!  I love my friend!  I talk to her just about everyday, and she can relate to me in a way that no other person on this earth can.  Not only does she know me inside and out, she has 4 children and understands my daily obstacles, in fact she is almost always one step ahead in the child department.  We budget together, plan meals together, and find money saving tips for one another.  Crystal, you are a great friend in EVERY way!  I love you and would find it difficult to function daily without you. 

I love you!  HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!