Bread and Tennessee!

I've been a blogger lately. With the holiday and some changes made at work, I've been busy and frankly, a little lazy with this place. I finally got some pictures back from the Tennessee/Wedding trip at the end of October, I'll throw some of those up here later today.

My charger for my laptop decided to just quit working and I had to spend 45 days on the phone with HP to get a new one. Or maybe it just seemed that long.

I recently became a mentor for Soldiers Angels and I'm super excited about that. I get to welcome lots of new angels to the (most addicting) program and help guide them along their way until they get settled in. I love sharing in that new angel joy and excitement, and it helps keep me motiviated to keep writing and sending and to stay all jazzed up about it. Sometimes we hit dry spells where we may not hear back from our official soldiers or anyone else for that matter, and the motivation to do it all starts to slip away. Then you get that one note or letter or email, or hear of another angel getting one and you get all geeked about it again.

My no-knead bread is ready to come out of the oven! Best bread ever!

UPDATE: This no-knead bread recipe (courtesy of Lotsofco) that has been sweeping the internet (the one that originated in the NYTimes is fan-freaking-tastic. So easy and the bread is AWESOME! The link is to his adapted version of it, and I'm in love with this bread. I've baked three loafs in four days and have another one rising as we speak. Addicted? Maybe just a little. Check it out:






And a few pictures from Tennessee: