I'm a mother to six wonderful children. I work full-time outside the home but nothing interfers with my love of cooking. I really enjoy baking and decorating goodies with my girls. We've just introduced my 3yr old son to decorating cookies and he absolutely loves it too! My absolute favorite thing to cook is "The World's Best Lasagna" from this site. It gets my family involved and I'm always sure to have a full table when its served, good times! I also like to bake, nothing says home like the warm sweet smells coming from the kitchen. Anything that we can cook, bake, grill as a family (even though chaotic at times) is a favorite to me. We love the holidays and find so many fun and interesting ideas from this site alone. On Christmas eve we always serve lasagna and decorate sugar cookies. We like to keep things sweet & simple in the kitchen, we cook as often as we can and as a family when possible. I've never had a huge triumph or tragedy, just a lot of learning experiences and great memories. I guess our triumphs are actually finding humor in our tragedies. I decided to add a new tradition to our family and roast pumpkin seeds after we carve our pumpkins in the fall. For not ever having tried a pumpkin seed, I never imagined that I could mess it up. So, one evening I got to roasting and on my first sample, I thought they needed to stay in the oven longer, they just didn't seem crunchy or what I was thinking a pumpkin seed should taste like, although I did get the recipe from this site and they did taste good, they didn't seem done. I baked them even longer and then offered my children a sample. They ate them out of kindness and I tried to eat them. I finally took some over to my neighbor to get his opinion and thats when he explained that they were like sunflower seeds and they had an outer shell. When we realized how to really eat them, they were great! So, I guess it was more of a learning experience than a tragedy, just at my childrens expense.