bSo what do I want to do today but cook and bake. How hard is that to do with three boys around?, very!!!!!! Plus I am trying to loose the extra weight that lies on this body of my and to have baked goods, even homemade bread in the house is just not a good idea with me, a person like myself loves food.
So I look at recipes and dream of making things. I dream of cooking fancy dinners like I use to do for Tom and I(now they were fancy for us but probably not for others) before the kids but who has time to do all that prep work etc. Especially when so many of my simplest meals don't turn out b/c "wait how much did I put in"... before getting interrupted and distracted or helping someone open this, close this, reach this, help with this, solve fights or problems. The list goes on. haha
No not complaining!!, just saying in my house I find it hard to do things that i use to do b/c of oh so many distractions. Now the boys love to help with the baking(I am making sure they know how to bake and cook...My future daughter in laws hopefully will love me haha Just joking) and well we do run into some of the same problems with quality b/c they all want to put stuff in, see into the mixing bowl and hold the raw eggs(oh hold on tight but not too tight please don't break the egg by accident, I don't want it all over the place....that is what goes through my head when they are holding the eggs.).
Than the big reason I don't bake as much as I want to is b/c my waist line! I don't have my mom here to monitor how many times my hand dips into the cookie tin, or pie plate or brownie pan etc haha. What can I say I am an addict to eating. the melting and chewiness of chocolate chip cookies, or the oooey gooey brownies, or the zestfulness of the lemon or key-lime pie. How about the cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger etc spices that just fill the house and make it feel so great and just dipping a ginger snap cookie into a cup of tea/coffee or for me as a kid and still now a glass of milk. I could go on people like really, on and on. No self control and eating like you did when you were exercising 5 days week and pregnant does not turn out well during the timestimes that you aren't pregnant and it took 10 1/2 months to recover from having that baby(whole other story that is not going to happen here), and couldn't exercise(thankfully I am back or trying to get back in that saddle).
Some of my favorite memories as a kid was either baking with my mom or was when I finally went to school is walking home wondering what smells were filling my house, wondering what mom might have made. Opening the door and having the smell wrap around you was so comforting and to this day special. I can't wait to make those memories for my kids. nothing like coming home from a long school day and having a oatmeal chocolate cookie, made with love!!! Miss ya mom.
Okay going to go clean and dream of a thinner waistline!!! Oh and Please Hand stay out of the bag of Chocolate chips that are sitting in the cupboard, open and lonely Haha
