I grew up in a typical southern family who taught me the top three priorities in life are God, family, and good food. I am a mother of three children, all of which were born in the first four years of my marriage. My husband is a wonderful man from Texas. Having the chidren so close together, I rarely have time to stroll through food preperation, but when I get the chance I love to take a couple of hours preparing a meal. Just about anything Mexican or Italian. I also love to fix anything sweet and homemade breads. Every Christmas, Mama would pull out the cookie cutters and we would make cookies until we were sick from the pinches of dough we would sneak. Also, during the week, we would eat a fast breakfast on our way to school. On Saturday mornings, though, Mama would fix a big breakfast with cinnamon toast, pancakes, waffles, homemade biscuits, or coffee cake. It was a great time of triping over each other in the kitchen and then sitting down to a wonderful meal. To-die-for homemade dinner rolls. I also make some pretty awesome oatmeal raisin and no-bake cookies, and I have conquered tortilla roll ups. Every so often I will be in a hurry or I will have a child, or two, in my ear and I don't pay quite close enough attention to my ingredients list. I have left the oatmeal out of the oatmeal raisin cookies (The dough was a little runnier, but not really that noticeable until the raisin smears came out of the oven)and there was one time I didn't put the yeast into the bread machine. That was the flatest, most aweful bread I have ever made. The rising really does make a difference in taste.