Domesticity Rocks

Kung-Fu Kouryouchan.

Mmm, bread. I tried one with baker's percentages, which means that you measure out the flour and determine its weight. From that, you then calculate the weight of water, salt, and yeast you'll need. I tried a 72% water, 1.8% salt, and faked it on the yeast and just tossed in a whole packet.

It's fantastic. I'm now scrounging the internet for other bread recipies in baker's percentages, to find out what the ranges are and see what can do about things like bagels, pretzels, and donuts.

I introduced the girls to Guitar Hero II. At first, they were cool on it, now they can't stop playing it. Omaha and I had to limit their game time or they would have never gone outside.

In other domestic news, I mopped the kitchen and dining room, cleaned the kitchen counters (needed that to make bread), broke down a ton of delivery boxes and put them in the recycling, did two loads of laundry and one load of dishes, walked to the grocerly store for milk, eggs and bread, burned off sixteen gigabytes of DVDs, weeded the garden and cleared off the back porch. (I just write these so I can keep track of what's been done; I know it's hardly exciting to y'all.)

While I was unpacking my gym bag and doing the laundry, I found my boxing gloves, which Kouryou-chan immediately put on. Very cute.

Omaha and I have taken to photocopying our favorite recipies, putting them into plastic slipcovers to protect them, and putting them into a family binder. I made a photocopy of Yamaraashi-chan's favorite casserole recipe, from a 1950's Better Homes & Gradens cookbook, because the poor well-loved book is falling apart. I had to run down to the store to get egg noodles and milk and stuff. We forgot that this weekend was our monthly grocery run, so we're short on bread.

It was very sad, sending Yamaraashi-chan over to her mother's house for the summertime. She'll be gone for two whole weeks, and poor Kouryou-chan will miss her terribly, just as we all will. To make up for it, we went to Dairy Queen for dessert.