Some of my greatest pleasure comes from recreating the comfort foods and desserts of my childhood. I had the best teachers--my grandmother who made the most delicious fruit pies and sugar cookies and my mother who inspired and encouraged my love of cooking. I love living in Oklahoma and try to incorporate my state's local, organic products into my baking. I have a small but growing customer base with my bakery and catering business, For Goodness Sake. I blog about my adventures at http://grannyloohoo dot blogspot dot com I enjoy being in the kitchen with my daughter, who also helps with the catering. I am the events coordinator and caterer for my church, so I experiment with all kinds of new recipes, especially those from Allrecipes and from my favorite blogs. Probably my favorite thing about being a baker is making and decorating specialty cupcakes and cakes for customers. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, so preparing the traditional meal is something I keenly anticipate every year. This past Thanksgiving my DIL cooked the entire meal, and it was fantastic! Favorite Christmas traditions are to bake my grandmother's sugar cookies and gooseberry pie, as well as Danish Kringles from a recipe given to me by my junior high home economics teacher. My triumphs are when a customer praises my food, and when my husband says "wow, this is great!" One Thanksgiving when I was sick (that was my excuse), I forgot to put sugar in the pumpkin pie! My DH put whipped cream on it and ate it anyway.