Tuesday, March 17, 2026

More Sourdough

"Temple Tuesday"s are still happening, but my 5am temple mornings have ended. I first missed it two weeks ago when K woke up at 4:30 am and told me to stay. That time, after Corey got back from the temple, he offered to stay home with her and I was able to go at a normal time, aka 10 am which was a lot nicer. Then last week I was feeling a little sick and thus again opted out of the early hour trip but did go later (and only had a slight coughing attack). This morning I stayed home without a real reason other than it's probably better for my possibly overworked and inflamed body, so here we are. Oh, also cause I needed to cook sourdough for my family. Would you like to see my loaf from this morning? 

Isn't that PRETTY!!?!?! Oh yeah I'm getting good!! Those smaller scoring cuts were inspired by this video. I like the look of them a lot. Also it's too bad I saw that after I threw out a lot of starter that I thought was bad cause of that grey liquid. Oh well. I took a loaf to Jami next door yesterday, and this morning I took the pretty loaf above to the neighbors across the street. I'm going to try and give away a loaf a day this week. This one below was for the kids. (Shall I post another photo of my bread?)...
It's fun, but I probably don't need to keep taking photos of it? I must be a proud mama though, cause I want to take pics and share them. I liked making designs. Maybe it's a good creative and artistic outlet since I don't have time to draw or paint. Here's my loaf from yesterday - 

And I tried to make two loafs at the same time in the dutch oven without using the bread pan (just so I could do two at once). Turned out ok, slight smile/banana bend to them.

I guess bread is my current hobby. I'll try not to post more pics. Or if I just have to share I guess I could have a kid help me start a youtube channel, ha.

So, temple: I'm still going, but just not at 5am. I could do 5am if we go to bed at 9, but that prob won't be happening as long as we have children in our home, so, yeah. I'll take advantage of having Abi around on Tuesdays and Thursday while we have her and I'll just go when she gets back home from seminary. Which is what I did today. I went to Draper and did initiatories at 2 and then went on a bike ride! Yay, win-win. I did Clarks. I would have done Ann's but there was a guy in front of me and he turned on Ann's, and I didn't want to follow him or pass him and have him follow me and have to worry about playing bike tag, so it's easier to just take a different route, even if it's Clarks. I was proud that I was willing to take on Clarks this early in the season. It was good though, I just kept it steady and didn't try to break any personal records. I didn't have to stop and walk, yay.

Another good thing from today - it was the first night in over a week that I did not cough during the night, yay. I also didn't have a fit this morning or at all today, yay again. I'm crossing my fingers that I'm all better. I've got 3 sick kids though.  Daniel and Peter were sick on Sunday, yesterday Peter stayed home but Daniel seemed better so I sent him and then they called saying he threw up and to come get him, doh! That was around 3:30 and school was almost out, but Abi had left with the van so I didn't have a car. They said he had a fever too so he couldn't come tomorrow. And they said he couldn't go home on the bus today, agh... thankfully Corey was able to hurry home to get him. Corey was almost on his way home anyway so we could have an early FHE. We were going to go swimming at the Rec Center, but with D&P sick, we did something more chill and just watched Catch Me If You Can and ate ice cream. The kids have been requesting to watch that since they saw their cousin Mikey's play. So then today Peter was really sick, Daniel had to stay cause they said he had a fever yesterday, and Sophi  stayed home too not feeling well. Daniel seems fine, other than a cough at night like I had. Peter's been the worst of them today - he's had an upset stomach and really yellow runny #2, (sorry about the tmi). Poor kid accidentally messed up his pants 4 times today so it's good he was home. Corey said today was an unproductive day for him - too many interruptions. I did pretty good. This morning I talked to Nicole as I moved bikes from the basement into the backyard. After Abi got back from seminary she moved Jerry to the shed, yay so that will be better too. 

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