I am a working-in-ministry mother to a handsome 4 year old son and a beautiful 3 year old daughter. I enjoy blessing my home and serving others through gifts, crafts, and food. I practice attachment parenting and grace-based discipline. I love musical theatre and accompany several local community and high school theaters. I love to laugh and be with friends, and love spending time with my children. I enjoy baking for gift-giving and finding new healthy dishes that *everyone* in my family loves. Holiday cookie bakes, letting my kids measure and mix many of our recipes at home, my mother-in-law's posole and enchiladas (still waiting for her to teach me how to make tamales : ), reminiscing with family about my grandmother's cooking, fish-fry and Christmas breakfast with my grandparents. Everyone loves my warm red-potato salad and my Southwestern cheesecake. I make a chocolate pecan-praline cake often for family and church functions, and love to deliver Giadda deLaurentis's Spicy Mocha to friends in the winter. All the new mom's that I deliver a meal to love my Cheesy Chicken Bake. I used to make the worst pancakes for my husband. I finally gave up the pre-made mixes and found my own recipes that work better. They are still not like his dad's. I exploded a wonderful artichoke casserole once by leaving it on a burner that I had forgotten to turn off. The pyrex pan sprayed all over my kitchen. I ruined some pasta fagioli once by adding too much pasta. I have made some horrible roasts and pork loin in my crockpot....not sure how I screwed those up, but I did!