I am a 42 year old stay-at-home Mom of a 4 year old and 9 year old. I get so much enjoyment out of cooking and baking. I get excited over any reason to create a feast. Super Bowl, Birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, JUST BECAUSE ITS A BEAUTIFUL DAY OUTSIDE, Good Report Card, etc. etc. Our friends and family enjoy coming to our house for a meal. My two daughters and I bake cookies, cakes, and other sweets and make Christmas gifts for teachers, church members and friends. I collect unique baskets and gift boxes throughout the year. Catered an outdoor luncheon for twenty people for a friends mother's 65 birthday party. WAS A HUGE SUCCESS. Attendees thought she had hired a professional. I have been cooking since I was 12. My grandmother taught me to make biscuits from scratch, the old fahioned southern way WITH LARD. When I was 17 I made biscuits for a very elderly gentleman who was a friend of the family. I used all purpose flour instead of self rising. THEY WERE NASTY. The gentleman spread jam on them and ate them anyway. That's the reason I called him a GENTLEMAN. I never forgot this cooking disaster or his reaction.