Saturday, July 28, 2012

Baking Bread with the Young Women

Since moving here we have been blessed with a wonderful ward.  A few months (okay 6) I was called to serve in the Young Women.  I was surprised because we really only had 2 active young women.  But I was happy to serve and work with the girls. 
Over the last few months we have had Emma turn 12 and a new Mission President who has a YW, but we have that still leaves our count at 4. 
This last Wednesday for our activity we told the girls we were going to bake bread as a service to the ward.  The plan was to have each girl make their own dough and I would make a loaf.  We would donate my loaf to the church and it would be used on Sunday for sacrament.  Well by the time we got started on Wednesday we had 9, yes count them NINE girls show up.  We had 3 less active girls and 2 visitors come to make bread with us. 
Needless to say I was scraping together enough bowls and spoons for each to make their own loaf of bread.  I did not get mine made.  But it is all good.  I made mine today, Saturday, so it will be fresh for tomorrow mornings service.  Now it we can just get all 9 of those girls to church on Sunday.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Were all my babies like this?

Last night at dinner Eli decided he was not going to eat his dinner.  He was not going to even try it.  We have had nights like this before.  I remember each of my kids going through a stage.  Emma decided at one point (I guess at about Eli's age) that she was not going to eat anything white.  That included milk, potatoes, bread, ice cream etc. 

Eli is currently refusing to eat anything except milk, yogurt, cookies, candy and fruit.  No veggies and no meat.  I'm super frustrated by this. 
  • I have tried the "then that is all you will get until you eat" approach.  But honestly that just drives me crazy. 
  • I have tried the "then I will blend it up with some yogurt and put it in a bottle" approach.  Sometimes and works and sometimes not. 
  • But mostly we go with the "than eat what you want" approach because it is what make all of us happy.  I have never tried this approach. 
When Emma was in her phase we used food coloring, colored cups and just avoided potatoes and bread that really are not that nutritional anyway. 

Do you think I am going to ruin him if I just let him have what he wants?