Setting up Shop

Here goes my very first blog post.  This is something I've thought about doing for a while but haven't with no real excuse other than finding a name for a blog is really hard! 

If you are coming across this and don't know me, I'm a wife to Steve, a hard working food and beverage director at a local country club, and a mother of 2 active, handsome, wonderful boys!   Gabe is 6 and in the first grade and Chase is 2 and home with me and does everything his big brother does. 

About 5 years ago, I was at a crossroads and it was one of those moments when I realized everything I did was for someone else.  The husband or the baby or whomever.  I knew I needed to do something for me and on impulse I picked up the phone and called a local pastry school and enrolled. It was like something took over me that day. I don't know what it was or what made me call but I did and I was immediately smitten with the smells, and the conversations about different flours and sugar, the loud hum of the hoods, the smack of dough against the side of a mixer, seeing ingredients in their bowls and then turning them into something delicious in a matter of hours with my own hands. 

I met some amazing girls and graduated with confidence and a game plan.  I worked at a local bakery and imagined what it would be like to be the one in charge, making the decisions, having it be mine.  The things I would change, what I would keep, everything down to the uniform was in my brain. . . but my husband got an amazing job opportunity and we moved.  It turned out to be something wonderful for our family but I didn't find a bakery to work at once we moved and the confidence I once had wasn't there anymore.  I knew I missed it, the sounds and smells and creations but circumstances were what they were.  I worked from home and getting a job in a bakery meant daycare and a lot of changes we felt our family wasn't ready for.  Steve and I talked often about me baking again and after a long discussion one night we decided it was time.  Start small, start slow and see what happens.  After all, it would feel hypocritical of me to raise my kids telling them to make sure they were happy, find what they love and find a way to make it their job if I wasn't doing the exact same thing myself.  I needed a push and that conversation that night was it.  It was time for me to break out the whisk and springform and put something in the oven. . . just wasn't quite sure how to do that.  

So. . . after some discussion on Facebook (gotta love social networking) and talking with some family I decided to start this blog, an Etsy page and get back to it.  Tempted Pastries and Pies will become something real!!

This week is an exciting one.  Not only am I posting my very first blog post but Tempted is having its first tasting on Sunday.  I've invited about 200 people to come down and taste a little bit of the goodies I'll be offering on my Etsy page and give me some feedback.  Hoping its all wonderful of course. . . and hoping it's wonderful enough that they remember me and place an order once the site is all the way up. . . maybe spread the word to their friends ;) 

I love making desserts because its the food that people celebrate with. . . imagine a birthday with no cake, Thanksgiving with no pie or Christmas with no cookie.  I want to be the person who makes those things for you, who puts something tasty and wonderful on your table so you have more time to spend with the family you share those moments with.  So here is to new beginnings and future celebrations and something tasty!