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Don't Disturb This Groove: Baking as a Form of Self Care with Nielsen-Massey
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Don't Disturb This Groove: Baking as a Form of Self Care with Nielsen-Massey
OMG, hold the presses! Baking can be a form of self-care!
ReplyDeleteIf you already enjoy it, that is. What a revelation--I must sit down and fan myself over this Brand New Information.! LOL.
If you don't (or you're not in the mood), pushing yourself to do something dreary is hardly soul-nourishing.
Happy Friday, Linda and Tommy! Hope your weekend plans include something fun and something delicious. Maybe some Chicken Salad Chick for lunch? Yum!
I am looking forward to seeing if this yard sale has a pink chair I saw. I need it for my new bathroom in the bedroom.
DeleteWe will have something delicious.
Happy Friday to you!
I enjoy cooking more than baking for some reason. 😂
ReplyDeleteBelinda,
DeleteI suppose it depends on my mood.
I can’t add anything more than what Sue said. I have always found baking to be relaxing, I consider it a hobby. Cooking seems more of a chore at times, but baking relaxed me, perhaps because I can do it on my time, and not to get a meal on the table by a certain time! That said, I wouldn’t consider this cheesecake she made baking. Also, I bristled at her words about dessert being a “reward” for eating vegetables. It infers that something sweet is a reward and vegetables are unpleasant, and punitive . Ours was an “eat what you want, leave what you don’t want, but keep your negative editorial comments to yourself” table. Failure to eat one’s carrots had no bearing on the availability of dessert. Kids were expected to sit politely, join in the conversation, and ask to be excused before they left the table. If I noticed a kid hadn’t eaten much I would call them to the kitchen during cleanup and ask if they were okay, or just didn’t care for the meal. If they were still hungry I would offer something like cheese and crackers. The *only* behavior penalized was disparaging comments and the meal. Words like “gross,” “disgusting,” or low key “yucks” got one reminder of the rule, then promptly removal from the table with a one way trip to bed for the night. (I had to enforce this once, and after cleanup I brought a tray of cheese and crackers, and a glass of orange juice to the bedroom to find the kid had fallen fast asleep. He slept through the next morning, and came down
ReplyDeletewell past the time to make it to the school bus with a sore throat, fever, and big smile that someone had left him a tray. That explained the previous night’s behavior!)
Good luck with the bath remodel! I once told my husband after a bath remodel circa 2001, that I would move before I did that again!
Meg,
DeleteTheir father would openly ridicule food I cooked. Big problem, but gone now.
Other people are not doing their part, so no progress. I can see how there would be problems. Ugh
We had just moved to this part of the country. The (2nd floor)primary bath was a nightmare…no shower, just a huge spa tub, and the ugliest linoleum ever. The layout was tricky too as the spa tub was right up against the window, so no way we could put a walk in shower. We had a tub /shower combo put in, which required redoing the floor and pulling up part of the sub floor, leaving partial access to the crawl space. That night around 2a.m. I woke up to the sounds of a cat meowing. She had crawled in the access area and couldn’t get back up. I had to shimmy down there to pull her out, as my husband held a flashlight, then had to go take a shower in the other bathroom before I could go back to sleep because I was all dusty. When I told my husband that I would move before I would remodel, he explained how lucky I was, among other things, that the people we hired actually showed up when they said! Before we met he built houses as a hobby on the days he didn’t have trips, and had horror stories of sub contractors not showing up. I can’t imagine trying to contract anything out on my own. A general contractor has clout with the sub contractors. I don’t. All this to say, best of luck. Honestly, while it’s more expensive, it’s best to go through a local, general contractor for a remodel. (Which is what we did with that bathroom.) They tend to fit the smaller jobs during the slow periods, and will usually let you know if they can’t do it anytime soon. I would *never* call any of those people who advertise on television, like, say, Bathfitters. You’re usually not saving anything, and they are notorious for not showing up. Why? Because basically they just hire local sub contractors too, the same ones the general subcontractors use. So “Bathfitters” will promise you the moon, but they know damn well they can’t get someone out when they say they can. What they do is schedule you BEFORE they have a subcontractor available, THEN sub it out. (Call around to local tradesmen until they can get someone.) And the local tradesmen will do the higher paying jobs before a one off, even if it means not showing. So the local bath and tub place here isn’t going to give “Bathfitters “ who maybe calls them once every two months , any tradesmen on, say, a Tuesday, if the local general contractors, their bread and butter, have work. “Bathfitters” isn’t going to tell you that though. They’ll say someone will be out Tuesday, even though they haven’t secured someone yet. Then they’ll keep calling around hoping to find someone available in your area. Sometimes they can, other times they can’t. And they don’t care because they aren’t a local company.
DeleteIn any case, if I were in charge of local building permits, I would require at least one walk in shower with double backed grab bars in all new construction. Good luck.