I started baking bread, without a breadmaker, some time before Thanksgiving. I wanted to do this to cut our budget some because the bread we liked was around $2 a loaf at the store, and we used 2-3 loaves a week. Everyone enjoyed it, but it just took so long that I soon gave up doing it on a daily basis.

Daddy L bought me a nice new breadmaker for Christmas. I had one before, but I never used it...I lacked self-confidence to make bread from a recipe, and the boxed mixes were just too expensive, and it didn't taste like *Wonder Bread*. I gave it away a few years ago because I was sure that I would never use it again. The one Daddy L bought me was much nicer than that one, so I'm still glad I gave it away.

I guess I'm a little more confident now because I've been trying everything in this new machine. Most of it has turned out GREAT..but a few things have flopped. No biggie, I just don't make those any more. Everybody LOVES this homemade bread!

The problem with this, I'm making 3 loaves a day!! And with that, they are still eating it all...there is none left!! I try to make one loaf at night, pull it out right before I go to bed, and that is for breakfast (no matter what we have they still eat the bread with it...even with pancakes or waffles). I put a loaf in of the morning, and they eat it for lunch, or WITH lunch...with butter or something on it, or they will eat it as a snack after lunch. I put in another loaf to be done by supper time and it's gone with supper.

Daddy L says, "enough is enough already." He told me to limit them, and not to let them eat all the bread.

"How do I do that?", I ask.

Of course, he had no response to that. He's just as bad as they are, and if he is home when the bread comes out he *has to have* the heel slathered in butter.

So, today he suggested that he just buy me another breadmaker so I can keep more made. I had mentioned it in jest a few times because I think it's just so funny that they eat so much bread...but I'm not sure I *really* want another one. I hope he's not really serious about it either.