I have been married for twenty years. I have two teenage sons and a bunch of pets. I sometimes lose track of just how many there actully are. I am a stay at home mom and I love to cook. Now that the kids are older it is a lot nicer because they are a lot more willing to try different things. I like to read,camp,garden and enjoy the outdoors when it is actually warm enough here in Canada to be outside. My favourite things to cook are any kind of pasta,soups,stews and I am finally getting really good at baking. We always just do the very traditional Christmas and Easter dinner. Pretty typical I guess. Everyone also picks their favourite birthday dinners and cakes. Learning in the first place was a triumph. I was terrible and learned slowly over the years. But, now I am completely hooked on trying new things and every week find at least a couple of new things. I'm sure everyone is tired of being a guinea pig. I once forgot that I had a cake with seven-minute frosting sitting in the oven to keep the cat away from it. I then turned the oven on to heat it up and needless to say, lit it on fire. Scary!