I will continue to post on here, just sometimes life gets a little slower with less events, and there's just nothing I feel I should post, or there's too much going on and I just can't put it in my fingers to type it all out.
I've learned something about myself recently. I like to look forward to things. I'm certain this is why I don't care for surprises. I mean I enjoy them, but I like looking forward to things more than I do being surprised with them. If I can look forward to something for a couple of weeks, then it's got a bunch of build up, which breeds happiness in me, and it makes me excited for weeks instead of just the short time it exists.
Another thing I've discovered about myself, I love to bake, and I think it's something I may be passionate about. This is a surprising thing for me because I don't have much of anything that I would consider a passion. Someone asked me this past week if I've always had an interest in baking, and I had to think about it. I have. When I was little I used to make these brownies that were in a children's cookbook. It was my trademark dessert. Also, when my mom would make pies and cobblers she'd let me help and make a smaller version of what she was making. I need to get one of those little pie pans. Although, I make more cakes than anything else. I have a little cake pan. I should let Hannah make a little cake with me sometime. In any case, I think that I'm starting to consider myself a baker.
My son should be napping right now, but he's so excited about events that are going to happen later this evening, that he can't sleep. Poor kid. He's going to be exhausted. It'll be a late night tonight too. Maybe he'll eventually fall asleep. Hmmm...doesn't sound like it though.
So speaking of that passion of baking...I wish I were baking something today. Bread doesn't really count for me. It's got to be something significant. Although, last night it wasn't baking, but it was some country ham and potato soup. I like to make things I've never made before. I hate getting in a rut of a pattern of recipes, which is really why I don't always know what to cook. I don't like to plan ahead of time always because I like to improvise. My mom doesn't like to do the same thing the same way twice, and I feel like I'm similar in that way. She's legitimate about it, but I'm teeter on the edge of being in a rut forever, but wishing I could bum myself out of it.
I'm reading a book called Messy Spirituality. It's a very interesting viewpoint on our spirituality and what's "spiritual" and what isn't. I really like the book because it brings about an insight that I've never really thought was "OK." Anyway, I'd recommend it. It's by Michael Yaconelli. A Sunday school teacher of ours recommended it to me.
On a completely unrelated note did you know that stirrup leggings are coming back in style? Whoa. Never thought I'd see that day!
http://gap.us/dEUeWN
Yeah. Not going there. Again...wait, not to the website, I mean to that style...never mind.
1. There is no shame in slowing down posting. Sometimes you have things to write about, sometimes you want to write about nothing in particular, and sometimes you just don't want to write at all. Blogging has its seasons. :)
ReplyDelete2. If you have a "trademark dessert" then I'm pretty sure baking is a passion.
3. I think I will have to go and read Messy Spirituality. Just the title sounds interesting!
Jennie, I Googled Messy Spirituality and got a lot of information, including a lengthy interview with the author Michael Yaconelli. He sounds pretty interesting! Chances are we would run him out of our church though, he is not quite conventional conservative Baptist. This is good :)
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