I am a happily married mother of six ages ranging from 16yrs.-1yr old. I work full time but usually can find time to fix a complete meal for my family. My favorite thing to cook would have to be gumbo. My family doesn't actually have any certain cooking traditions. We just like to be creative and try new things. Fried chicken!!!! Thanksgiving 2008. My mother fell sick and could not finish cooking her Thanksgiving dinner so she asked me for some help with no time to really prepare. So any way, I decided to multi-task and do the mashed potatoes, make a salad and do some corn. I thought if I did the potatoes first I would have time to do the other task. I chose to chop the potatoes small so they would cook faster and everything would be done on time. By the time I got done with the salad and the corn I realized that I had choped the potatoes smaller to cook quicker. By the time I checked the potatoes they had turned to soup. So to save the grace of the potatoes I ran to the grocery store and grabbed a box of instant potatoes and added about a cup of them to my potato soup and the potatoes turned out okay.