Sweet new toy!

Okay, so maybe it's not a toy, but it's pretty awesome! My mom gave us a bread maker for Christmas but since we couldn't pack it in our suitcases, we returned it in Connecticut and re-bought the same one here yesterday. Craig has been asking for homemade bread for some time now so I decided to try it out today to go with our tortellini bake. Being the impatient one I am, I decided to use the "ExpressBake" setting which claims the ability to take the ingredients from a pile of mush to bread in 1 hour. They win. It works and the bread is rather tasty! (We made a light wheat bread today). As soon as grandpa Merrill gets home from church we'll be enjoying our fresh wheat bread, tortellini and squash bake and homemade chocolate chip cookies for dessert.


*Is anyone else so tired once they're done making a meal that they don't even want to eat anymore?