Six Words: Combine Love, Faith, Determination. Mix Well.

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The challenge:  A six word memoir.  Six words to capture a life's past, present, and foundation for the future.

After consideration and tweaking, six words that seemed to sum it up and have remained true through day-to-day life and milestones (including an engagement and wedding!).

Combine Love, Faith, Determination.  Mix Well.

Today, as an introduction to this blog, I focus on the beginning and the end.  More later on love, faith, and determination.  So Combine.  Mix Well.  The six word limit requires each word to carry more than one significance.  Again, I highlight just one today.  Baking. 

I thrive on routine.  When you find something good, why mess with it.  A perfect weekend includes significant kitchen time.  I am blessed with a husband who respects the routine and is completely supportive of my latest brainstorms and experiments.  He is a willing participant in 'testing' the output and providing honest feedback.  He is a baker himself, and also a chemist.   He also has a sweet tooth (or two.  or three.)  This allows for conversations about cooking methods, "what ifs", in addition to "but does it taste good?" 

I also have many people who are "on my list."  This is a good thing.  It means Kari will regularly surprise you with something sweet from the oven.  Because it's a holiday.  Or your birthday.  Or it's Monday.  Or the sun set on another Saturday with a batch of cookies, loaf of bread, blondies, and brownies on the counter.  This list includes many lovely people (word two...LOVE) - - family, friends, co-workers, the people who sit behind us in church every weekend (remember...I love routine), the sample lady at the grocery store.  Let me know if you want to be added. 

So the foundation...COMBINE good ingredients.  Often as directed on the page of a cookbook.  Just as often a brainstorm in my head.  MIX WELL and wait for the magic to happen...