With Aya’s maternity leave over, she’s back at work and wanting to do everything possible to keep her milk supply up. Which includes eating tons and tons of oatmeal. She’s never been a huge fan of oatmeal, so she researched a lot of different recipes to keep it interesting. Apple cinnamon, peanut butter and jelly, and this one; pumpkin pie! We’ve all been enjoying this one.
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This has two cups of cider, two apples, and two sticks of butter in it, making it a very moist and delicious bread. The crunchy cinnamon and sugar topping made it extra special.
This recipe made two loaves of bread. It looked gorgeous coming out of the oven, but after a few minutes, the round puffy top got a little flat. But that didn’t change the flavor or the texture. I baked this for 53 minutes.
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For awhile, Ellie actually went to sleep pretty easily. But after our trip to Japan to visit Aya’s parents last year, our system fell apart. I tried re-aligning her sleep methods shortly after our return, but in the end, I had failed miserably. Since then, we’ve just accepted the situation. Between Ellie’s ups and downs during the day, and Aya’s pregnant hormonal ups and downs during the night, sitting quietly in Ellie’s room for an hour until she fell asleep seemed much easier than fighting the battle.
Sleep has always been Ellie’s biggest challenge. (Well, my biggest challenge.) She is an extremely independent little girl, “I do it myself!” except when it comes to sleep. When it comes to sleep all of a sudden she turns into the biggest staller that requires a whole lot of hand holding. Literally and figuratively.
