Good crackers are hard to find.

They're actually not. They can be found without the long list of non-food ingredients, if you want to turn over an arm and a leg for them! I think they charge a high premium for the air in those bags. If your family is like mine, an entire box can be put away in one sitting with no problem. So, we mostly eat bread instead : ) The sweet, nutty, fruity kind are perfect for breakfast or an afternoon snack. With flaxseed and walnuts, whole wheat flour or spelt, or even unbleached all purpose flour, it is a more nutritious, and very delicious alternative. Plus, have I mentioned the aroma that will fill your home? Only about 5,000 times, I know.

Rich Sweet Bread
2 Eggs, room temperature, plus enough water 80 degrees to equal 1 1/4 cups
Oil 3 TBL
Sugar 3 TBL
Salt 2 tsp
Flour 4 cups
Raisins 2/3 cup
Can also add 1/2 cup dried cherries or cranberries
and 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Yeast 2 tsp
Program: Sweet
This one is soooooo good!

Declaring weekends a Blog Free Zone in our home for 2009. That applies to my blog writing only, not my reading and commenting on yours! Between the material the kids provide and my own thoughts swimming around in my head, I could blog my days away. Have to set some boundaries, you know? Some people set resolutions to blog more, mine are to blog less.

Will leave you with a personal confession:

Now that I finally joined facebook so I can keep up with a couple of my non-blogging friends and see their pictures, I started thinking, wow....I really need to start searching for people and building up my friends list so I can get my numbers up.

Forget that I am not overly interested in spending much time there as blogging is much more my speed and I already spend PLENTY of my valuable time on the computer. I really don't need another thing to keep up with. I already feel consistently pulled in several directions at once most of my day with the myriad of worthy tasks competing for my attention. LAME OR WHAT? So, I'm not going to do that. If people come to me great. Or, if I see someone I am genuinely interested in keeping in touch with, also great. But, I won't waste my hours building up my friend bank so I can APPEAR to be something I'm not. For my true friends who are facebook people, I will try to write on your walls and comment on your pictures, because I figure you must enjoy that the way bloggers enjoy receiving feedback. It's the friendly thing to do!

Hello, my name is Tisha and I have to watch myself closely to avoid trying to appear anything other than who I am. Working hard to be as UNpretentious as possible, while looking beyond the surface to allow others the same opportunity in my presence. Let me tell you what, it is not always easy!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!