My First Blog Entry - About Me

Wow it's hard to write the very first blog entry! Well, it has been for me anyway. I've been googling things like "what to write for first blog entry" for a few days now and still I've got no big or exciting or even interesting ideas to start with. So I decided I'd just start by introducing and telling you a little bit about myself.

My name is Barb, my husband and friends call me Babs, which actually started as a joke but ended up really sticking. You see, my husband likes to give everyone nicknames, whether it's behind your back or to your face, oh, and the dumber the nickname the better! The funny thing is that nicknames just come to him instantly the moment he meets someone and he doesn't hesitate to start using the nickname the second it pops into his head. Once in a while he doesn't nickname a person right away and then when he tries he can't. Anyway, the night we met, he instantly started calling me Babs and everyone had a good laugh and went along with it and I've been known by that name ever since, (which was about 9 and a half years ago).

My husband, whose name is Kevin by the way, and I have been married for just over 3 years. We have 2 kids, a 4 and a half year old daughter and a 9 and a half month old son.

My work background is mostly secretarial / clerical, although I'm currently on maternity leave which is coming to and end soon. I feel very lucky that I got to have a whole year off (thank you Canada!), but I'm really sad to be going back to work. Not really because I'm going back to work, but because I'm sad to leave my little baby boy at daycare. He's a clingy, sensitive little guy and yes, I admit, I'm really worried about leaving him with our daycare provider since I can't even leave him alone with family without him having a major meltdown. (I know what you're thinking, suck it up sister!, right?)... but I just can't help it, I guess I turned out a mama's boy after all. ;)

My daughter says the funniest things. She's like a 10 year old comedian in a 4 year old's body. We have no idea where she comes up with half the stuff she says.

I love to cook, I spend a lot of hours looking at recipes each week, yet I hardly ever repeat recipes or stick to them in the first place. Poor Kevin, he likes plain, boring food and I can never just do anything "normal" as he says. I can't help it though, food is fun for me and I'm constantly looking for new ways to make things. I take a lot of pictures of the food I make too, so I plan on posting some of them here.

I guess this is a long enough first blog entry, hope I haven’t bored your socks off already!