I an a single mom. I am also a full time pre-nursing student. I currently hold a full and part time job. My daughter is working on trying to get into the olympics. She went to the junior olympics this summer. My son wants to be a profesional chef when he groes up. I am very active in my childrens schools, and after school activities. I'm also in charge of the kitchen at my church. I love cooking breads, cakes, muffins, candies, and chocolates I really don't think we have any traditiions. We just wing it as we go! When I was 14 I took home ec. @ school. We were required to plan, shop for, and prepare a meal for our family. We had never had homemade lassagna. I found a recipe in a cookbook for this and blindley went at it. It was one of the best meals my family ever had. My mom really loved it because she didn't have to do anything, not even the dishes. When I was 15 I attempted to make my 1st pan of biscuits. I was trying to go off the memory of how my mom cooked them. Not having a recipe, I thought I had used all the necessary ingrediants. Well I didn't. I didn't realize you were supose to put shortning in them, needless to say they came out hard as a rock. If I had thrown them at a dog they probably would have killed it.