All in a Day's Work

This is what we did this weekend: made bread, cooked and pureed a pumpkin and made Marc's Peter Pan costume. We bought a regular shirt and gym shorts and then cut the zigzags out of the bottoms and sleeves. I made the hat from scratch. I'm pretty proud of it, it turned out great! He even wore green tights (more pictures later).

We've been making bread almost every week now (sometimes it just doesn't happen but we try to do it every week). I get so much satisfaction when those loaves come out of the oven. It feels good to know that if there was some natural disaster and we couldn't get to any stores, I could make bread for my family (assuming that I have all the ingredients in food storage). I never thought I would be the type to make bread all the time, but now that I do it I don't know why I didn't start sooner. It's very therapeutic somehow. Lots of other cooking stresses me out a little because I'm always afraid I will burn something, but bread is easy and relaxing. Especially since the yeast does most of the work anyways. :)

Later in the day we carved pumpkins. Actually it was more like Marc carved pumpkins. Mine was really thick and I couldn't cut into it very well. So I drew the face and then he carved it, showing off his manly muscles.