Today we will not be doing much in the schoolwork department.  The local public school students have the day off, but the teachers have to work.  My daughter’s best friend’s mom is a teacher and she asked if we could watch her daughter today while she had her parent conferences. So we decided that we would take today off also.  I told the kids that they still need to do their Journal writing and I thought we would take a stab at making bread.  We love McAllister’s soup in a bread bowl, so I thought we’d try to make our own.  I have made bread in the past, with not so great results.  It seems that it never rises high enough to make a fluffy loaf.  I baked it anyways creating a very heavy loaf.  Still tasted good though. I tried to find the frozen dough in the store but I couldn’t find any, so we’ll take a stab at making it from scratch. If nothing else, my daughter and her friend will learn to appreciate what our ancestral moms went through to put bread on the table.  Wish us luck.