I'm a stay at home mom to twin boys who were born July 2005. While I never cooked much before they were born, I'm enjoying it now that I'm home all day and have a little extra time. Well, as much free time as two babies leaves me! I like to make recipes that are forgiving; where I have the ability to add and subtract ingredients according to our tastes. Or where I can make a mistake and the recipe is still salvagable. As a result, I'm not much of a baker where more precision is needed! I used to love making a zillion different kinds of Christmas cookies each year with my mom. Every year I say I'll make some Christmas cookies of my own...maybe this will finally be the year! I considered any meals I made during the first three months after having twins to be a triumph. Who cares how the meals tasted! Now I consider it a triumph if my boys don't just rub the food in their hair. My husband is the most wonderful test audience for my cooking. He's not picky, always appreciative, and dare I say, a little surprised that I've cooked. I guess never cooking in the first eight years we were married makes him really appreciate my cooking now! My cooking tragedies are many and usually amusing. Most recently, I decided to make a Texas Fudge Cake for book group when my boys were 3 months old. I don't know what I was thinking, I just really wanted a Texas Fudge Cake. But, of course, the boys started crying right as I started making it. I was interrupted so many times while I was making that cake, I have no idea how many mistakes I made. I am pretty sure I only put in half the required flour and sugar, though. Oddly enough, it still cooked up and looked like a cake. So, I brought it to book group still unaware of my mistake. Until we served it. And everyone took a big bite. Of the grossest fudge cake ever. Everyone was really nice about it, though, and I laughed so hard I almost cried. And then stopped for a twix bar on the way home to fill my chocolate craving!