I've been married for four years to David. I'm a stay-at-home mother of two boys William (Will, 3) and Luke (1). After God, these three people are most important in my life. I love to cook for them. I'm also an animal lover. There is nothing (with a few exceptions) I won't cuddle up to! I have two dogs (Quigley and Gus), two cats (Oreo and Daisy), a horse (Gem), and Will has a fish, Bob the Betta and an ant farm. I would love to have chickens. I feel pets are the greatest example of God's unconditional love. No matter how you look, feel, or think they love you anyway! FOR THE RECORD- I'm a horrible speller. So, if spelling is wrong, please forgive me:) Desserts! I always love to try new and exciting things. Although, I'm running short of ideas for dinner. With my boys getting older I seem to have less time for cooking good meals and I don't like cooking the same things all the time. Veriety is the spice of life! Also, I'm a (mostly) vegitarian, but my husband and children are not. I cook and sometimes eat meat about once a week. Doing this is sometimes hard, because it seems everyone centers dinners around a meat dish. If someone (except for family members, because they know) invites us for dinner and makes meat, I never turn it down. Just for the record, I'm not against eating meat, I do it because I feel its a healthy lifestyle and sometimes remember the cow, named Frog that I became close to as a child that my dad butchered. I had a hard time dealy with this. He was a sweet friend that I raised from the bottle. My husband and I have a large family, so we have our thanksgiving the weekend after. My husband raves my turkey as "the best." I stuff it with onion and lemons. My husbands mother always made a Birthday cake at Christmas for Jesus and sang happy birthday to him. We are carring this tradition on with our children. I think its important to remember that Jesus is the reason for the season. I feel all cooking adventures can be looked at as a triumph, because even if its a failure, a lot is learned. I've been cooking sence I was about eight with my dad. He is a great cook who can make something out of nothing (I need to have a recipe to look at and can make my own additions, subtrations, or substitutions) and is raved for his pies. The first thing I made was a grilled cheese sandwich on my dad's charished cast-iron skillet, standing beside him on an oak chair. I hope I can instill the value of cooking for your family to my children, like my dad did for me. I do triumph myself for being able to get my family to eat brussel sprouts (with apples and bacon-a great dish)! I have my own recipes for potato soup and carrot cake- these are huge family favorites! Also, for our church womens group Christmas Cookie Exchange, I took a picture of my cookies and printed the recipe on the back, everyone thought this was a good idea. Although I'm sure there have been many tragedies a couple stand out in my mind as well as the inability to make strambled eggs! The first, was a lasagua dinner I made for my husband (when were dating) on his 22nd birthday. I blame it on my apartment oven, but it was truly a flop, but he ate it with a smile! The second, was a dinner I had planned for friends. I blame this one on the clock, but everything went wrong even the dessert. It was an apple pie. Someone had told me to cook pies in glass dishes so you can make sure the crust is done on the bottom. When I took the pie out of the oven I lifted it up to look underneith and dropped it on the floor and litterly cried (I take that back, I sobbed). Needless to say, my husband took us all out for pizza. It turned out to be a great evening.