Did you know that for the last year I’ve been baking most of our bread at home?

I really like making it.  Once I got over my fear of yeast, I found it to be really enjoyable.

That hasn’t changed.  I still enjoy it.

But the bottom line is I can’t do it all.  I want to so badly.  But I just can’t.

I can’t bake all of our bread, make all of our snacks, cook all of our meals, line dry all of our laundry, clean my whole house, homeschool my two big girls, play with all three girls, spend time with my husband, go to church, serve in our ladies ministry, spend time with friends and family, attend homeschool events, participate in storytime at the library, scrapbook all of my photots, post daily on my blog, hand make all of my gifts, read my Bible, read for my bookclub, do the yardwork, take care of the garden, …….

I think you get the idea.

There are so many wonderful things I want to do and be, and I just can’t do it all.  And sometimes I think when I’m trying so hard to do it all, I end up missing out on the things God really has for me to do because I’m just too busy to notice.

So I’m making myself evaluate, and trying to invest my time and energy in the best of the good things.

So I quit baking our bread.  I will buy it at the store and it will probably have something artificial in it that wouldn’t have been in my bread.  But honestly I think the stress of trying to live up to unreasonable (self-inflicted) ideals is going to kill me a lot faster than a little corn syrup will.

I’ll still bake bread from time to time for fun, or special occasions.  We all enjoy kneading the dough!  But I’m no longer the solitary bread-source of the house.  And I’m glad.