Making The Most of Motivation
After the busy Christmas season, and feeling pooped from standing on my feet for hours at the time, searching recipes, cooking, shopping for ingredients; I wondered what really motivates me to keep doing this. My thoughts go back to the meals that our mother made for us down through the years. My brother and I would bring our children to her house, our sister would be there also, but she didn't have children, and we stayed for a couple of nights, played board games, and smelled mother's scrumptious recipes cooking. She always fixed different dishes and tried to make everyone's favorite thing. When all of us got around the table, a table that she had built herself that was sturdy and had benches, we would enjoy the works of her hands. There would be all kinds of cakes, pies, entrees, and breads. She would say, "Paula, I made that special Olive Loaf you like so much." I would just nod not realizing, in years to come, how much that would stand out in my m