I’ve told you before how I love to bake, that I always have since I was a kid, and about the time I ran away from home with my Easy Bake oven. Well, come Christmastime my want to bake explodes into long list of ingredients and recipes as my tastebuds water and my creative noggin churns of all the ways to present them to all the people I want to share them with. And that includes my children.
I love baking with my girls. Sometimes I just wish there was more time to do it and more adults handy to step in when the three girls are squabbling over space on the favorite foot stool used to for helping in the kitchen.
But still, I try to be a yes mom this time of year in the kitchen. Even if it means saying yes to doing half the recipe for buckeyes in the 45 minutes we have between getting home from school and reloading the girls back in Betty the Bus to make it to piano lessons at 5:00. We did that today. Just because it seemed like the fun thing to do.
So I’m sorry I didn’t stop by this site the last two days. I was baking, shopping and inventing more ideas of things to do – from buckeyes, to candy cane cookies, to a healthy gingerbread loaf house, to pancake mixes as gifts, soap making, beeswax candles crafting and bath salt mixing.
Come back really, really, soon. Because I’ve got big ideas to be a yes mom in the kitchen and beyond. And finally I will have some ideas together that you’ll love for baking up last minute teacher gifts, hostess gifts, cookie exchanges and for anyone with a sweet tooth or someone who likes a good hot bath. Which is sometimes just want a mama needs after cooking it up with three little helpers – I’m not going to lie. But it is fun indeed. Yes it it.
