Day 15:

I got a text from my 18 year old son at 1 a.m. saying he was really sick and was requesting soup in the morning.  I love that, even when he is all big and grown up and moved out, his Mama is the one he texts when he's sick.  It helps my heart when I miss him so much.  So, soup just got on the menu again today.  I made the same type as last time, but in this one I omitted the broccoli and kept it pretty simple.  Hoping that it helps comfort my sickie boy.

I'm having trouble with keeping a balance of homemade bread.  Either I bake way too much and they end up going bad, or I have too little and people are panicking when trying to pack their lunches.  It's like the Israelites when they were collecting manna; collect too much and it would get nasty; too little and they starve.  Feast or famine, people: the overall dilemma of the universe.  When my kids were scraping together the heels of several different loaves for their sandwiches, I figured we were really at bread-making time, and got some going; only one loaf this time. 

Seeing as how it is still really close to Halloween, and my kids are still addicted to sugar like its their crack, I have hesitated to try a food storage dessert.  However, my sweet friend who brought me recipes included one for brownies, and I am really tempted.  I'm going to ponder it in my soul for tomorrow's edition of 30DaysofFoodStorage!