And I sure do feel it at the end of the day. But things are so peaceful, and lessons are happening in such gentle ways that I can only attribute to the Holy Spirit at work.
And I am still managing to go for long walks regularly and keep up with the grass cutting (bushes still need trimming, though) and keep the house decent. The kids are a tremendous help in that regard and I'm glad to allow them to earn their allowance.
But at the end of the day I'm TIRED. And I hurt more than I had been. Part of that is the job hunt stress, which dh ways is getting on his nerves, and part of it is my new "job".
Today I made coffee cake for everyone's breakfast, including a separate low carb sugar free version for me, and homemade sugar free mayo and cooked up some chicken for chicken salad (hence the need for mayo) to have on hand. I'm thinking one factor in increased pain levels is all the bread I've been eating lately. Those carbs make a difference, or so they say. So, I'm trying to be good. Which means cooking double. Sigh.
But I gotta do what I've gotta do. And it's good.
And I am still managing to go for long walks regularly and keep up with the grass cutting (bushes still need trimming, though) and keep the house decent. The kids are a tremendous help in that regard and I'm glad to allow them to earn their allowance.
But at the end of the day I'm TIRED. And I hurt more than I had been. Part of that is the job hunt stress, which dh ways is getting on his nerves, and part of it is my new "job".
Today I made coffee cake for everyone's breakfast, including a separate low carb sugar free version for me, and homemade sugar free mayo and cooked up some chicken for chicken salad (hence the need for mayo) to have on hand. I'm thinking one factor in increased pain levels is all the bread I've been eating lately. Those carbs make a difference, or so they say. So, I'm trying to be good. Which means cooking double. Sigh.
But I gotta do what I've gotta do. And it's good.
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Silly question, what is your recipe for coffee cake? Can it be made with all brown sugar? I try not to use granulated sugar, don't even have it in the house. I'm not a baker but I've been craving coffee cake the last couple of weeks. I looked for a recipe on various sites but they all called for something I didn't like or have.
Thanks! Have a wonderful day!
Coffee Cake recipe:
p. 125 Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook, 1996
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 backed brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 cup butter or shortening
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon (but I use more)
1/2 tsp nutmeg
2 beaten eggs
1 1/3 cups buttermilk or sour milk
1/2 cup chopped nuts (I leave out, no nuts in the house due to anaphylactic allergy)
Directions in my own words:
spray 9x13 pan, preheat oven to 350,
mix flour, sugar, salt and cut in shortening until coarse crumbs. Set aside 1/2 cup of it.
To the rest, add the rest of dry ingredients, mix well. In 2 cup sized measuring cup, pour a few tablesppons of vinegar or lemon juice, add milk to 1 1/3 cup line. Allow a few minutes for this to clabber. add the eggs and stir well. Add wet to dry, stir, pour in pan, sprinkle crumbs on top (I add extra cinnamon to the crumbs before I do this) and pop in oven. Bake about 30 minutes until knife inserted is clean. Baking time may vary according to your oven.
xoxo
Congratulations on the homeschooling going well. My daughter starts kindergarten next week and the thoughts you shared years ago about schooling ring loudly in my ears.
I owe a lot of who I am as a mom to you.
Delurking to say I've been enjoying your blog off and on for a while. I originally found you through Mimi. But started coming back more reguarly after you joined the Ortho homeschool group.
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Low carb version is sort of "off the cuff" based loosely on the above recipe but using a low carb baking mix called carbquik (www.carbquik.com) that is like bisquick. So I leave out the leavening agents and salt, and shortening:
1 cup of carb quick
several big spoonfuls of Splenda and a packet of Steviaplus sweetener (sweeten to taste, I guess)
nutmeg and cinnamon
Remove some crumbs for topping.
something less than half the amount of the sour milk (if I were truly doing it really low carb I'd use low carb milk or watered down cream) and one egg. (I did half the amount and it was too watery so I added a heaping T. of carbquick in to thicken the batter back up.)
Put it together. Bake in a loaf pan (that's how much it makes). It's not loaf sized, and it's not super fluffy but tastes very good.
I lost 35lbs 4 yrs ago and I'm trying not to gain it back. My sister is my inspriation. She lost a whole person (about 125lbs) LCing, but she's not Orthodox.
I don't have Carbquick. I was given some of the Atkins brand that someone didnt like. I'll have to try it out.
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