Beginning my adventure with dough

After finding out my son has somewhat severe dairy and egg allergies it's really gotten me to realize how hard it is to find pre made foods that don't come in contact with either of these. My mom always baked bread growing up so I had some idea how to do it, but for some reason my dough is never the same as hers, even though I use her recipe.
so I've began to make breads, they aren't quite what I'm aiming for so every friday I plan to experiment a little bit until I've found something im happy with.