12.3.11 Missing my kitchen

So, I know I spent the majority of my summer blogging about food. Ah, and how grateful I am to taste food now! (Chemo would do a number on my taste-buds every round...) I now have those beloved taste-buds! So a little more history... this last week has been a doozer. I had a terrible cold and just was DOWN! I was talking to a friend of mine and had an epiphany (she helped). God is changing me, as a parent. What I thought in the past that made a "good" parent, today is different. I thought carpooling and cooking and cleaning made a "good" parent. I thought I NEEDED to do these things in order to be the parent that God wants me to be. But my perspective on what kind of parent He wants me to be looks different. WHAT does it look like?  I know that I am parenting from my bed, I read books, watch TV shows, snuggle, TALK and am a totally different parent. I guide (cause yelling from bed gets OLD real quick). I am teaching my kids to clean (and eventually cook), and care for themselves and each other. I am proud of the parent I am becoming. Okay so tonight I was going to blog about food and not being able to cook. Cooking is one of my passions. I love creating in my kitchen. I love trying new recipes, and adding to tried and true. I love taking pictures and posting reviews. I love to watch Bill enjoy my creations. In this last year, before my diagnosis, I started writing down some of my recipes and was going to start a blog. But my parenting has changed. My job descrition is the same, my location and how I will do my job will is different. I am okay with that, remembering that God determines who I am not what I do, who I know or how I do it is what I am suppose to do. Love you, love me, love you, love me.