Ugh. And Yum (I have iced coffee!)

Daylight Savings Time. My nemesis. Don't get me wrong, an extra hour of daylight is spiffy, but ever single year this damn time changes screws me up for at least a week. I am so tired today. Hubby tweaked his back so he is not in the best of moods, and is bound to be crabby when he gets home today. The Girl is home sick with the flu, but apparently not that sick as she is already asking if she will be well enough to hang with the friends this weekend. Not minding missing school though. Kids, bleh. The sourdough starter is doing great, I've remembered to feed it every night and am going to continue to do so for another day or two, I want a decent quantity of starter to stash in the fridge. Bread making will probably not happen until next week though. Yesterday was spent running kids around, sick kid, well kid, doctor trip, pharmacy trip, blah blah blah. Today will be spent doing laundry, and if I can manage to get conscious firing up the sewing machine, and making Isa's Snobby Joes for dinner. I LURVE me some lentils. Oh, and making BitterSweet's Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars. Scroll down for the recipe. If you haven't made them yet you should, very very easy and yet tasty recipe. My only changes to it are to add about a 1/4 cup of cocoa powder to the batter (family of chocoholics, besides me the vanillaholic), and I don't use vanilla soy milk as I think it's disgusting so never buy it. I use 1 TBS of vanilla instead and plain soymilk. SOOOOOOOOO yummy. I've been known to whip up a batch of these at 8 PM. The prep time is all of 5 minutes. I think I can handle that today. Tomorrow is The Boy's field trip to the DuPage Children's Museum. If you see a tall tired looking blonde-dreadlocked pierced nose mom with a cute little boy, it's probably me. Unless I have an unknown twin that will be at the DuPage Children's Museum tomorrow... I tend to stick out like the proverbial sore thumb. Someone remind me to take my camera. See you there!

Mmmmmm... Primordial Ooze...

Sourdough starter is really weird stuff. Mine is coming along nicely and I so have to take a pic of it tomorrow. It's bubbly, puffy and smelly. Not bad smelly, just well, sour smelly. I'm going to feed it one more time tonight and go out tomorrow and get a nice jar for it to live in my fridge in. And then I am going to be a freaky baking fool. My goal (even though I have not shared this with hubby) is to start baking bread out the wazoo and quit buying store bought bread. The sandwich bread we buy in particular is what I want to eliminate. It's whole wheat, store brand sandwich bread, and it tastes kind of like gnawing on the sole of one of my Chuck Taylors. The kids don't mind it and eat their PB & J's like it's nobody's business, not caring that they are eating bread that doesn't taste particularly good. It's my fault. I need to teach my children that bread for sammiches can be just as tasty as bread that we have with dinner. I shall prevail! I've even found recipes for sourdough wheat sandwich bread, YAY!