I made a big decision yesterday that I wanted to share with my DC family as many of you know me well enough to know how hard this was.
My health has been really bad this year (worse than usual) and I have had to make a lot of changes - diabetes, liver and other problems have changed my diet and my activity levels. I am now a vegetarian as my body can not process animal fats of any kind. I am almost vegan actually. With the diabetes I have to watch my sugar levels and at the moment have cut out all sweets except fruit.
So, just as I have started getting my cake business back up and running, I have decided to retire completely from all baking for hire and just do what we need for ourselves. Last Christmas I gave away my Christmas orders for the year, but am now letting my customers know that I have stopped completely. I found them all a substitute last year so I am sure she will be happy for the repeat business. I was to make a spiderman cake for the little boy we looked after for tomorrow, but I am having one made instead. I just decided I can't do "one more", it has to be now or never. And I am very at peace with this. It was getting very hard being around all of these temptations and needing to taste it for quality control.
And I won't be sitting around idly with nothing to do. I am looking forward to getting back to my culinary roots and coming up with interesting ways of getting my protein without harming a single soy bean (tofu, etc) . I am also getting busy with my crochet business and have many orders for Christmas to finish. I am going to expand it to designing other things like afghans, scarves, shawls, etc. My arthritic hands actually like the "workout" and I use ergonomic hooks. I will be building a website soon which exercises another skill set I have.
Plus I have the kids in my life now and being an acting Granny is a role I like alot.
They say that for every door that closes, another one opens and I have a few new ones. I am happy and can't wait to see where they lead.
Comments are welcome!
My health has been really bad this year (worse than usual) and I have had to make a lot of changes - diabetes, liver and other problems have changed my diet and my activity levels. I am now a vegetarian as my body can not process animal fats of any kind. I am almost vegan actually. With the diabetes I have to watch my sugar levels and at the moment have cut out all sweets except fruit.
So, just as I have started getting my cake business back up and running, I have decided to retire completely from all baking for hire and just do what we need for ourselves. Last Christmas I gave away my Christmas orders for the year, but am now letting my customers know that I have stopped completely. I found them all a substitute last year so I am sure she will be happy for the repeat business. I was to make a spiderman cake for the little boy we looked after for tomorrow, but I am having one made instead. I just decided I can't do "one more", it has to be now or never. And I am very at peace with this. It was getting very hard being around all of these temptations and needing to taste it for quality control.
And I won't be sitting around idly with nothing to do. I am looking forward to getting back to my culinary roots and coming up with interesting ways of getting my protein without harming a single soy bean (tofu, etc) . I am also getting busy with my crochet business and have many orders for Christmas to finish. I am going to expand it to designing other things like afghans, scarves, shawls, etc. My arthritic hands actually like the "workout" and I use ergonomic hooks. I will be building a website soon which exercises another skill set I have.
Plus I have the kids in my life now and being an acting Granny is a role I like alot.
They say that for every door that closes, another one opens and I have a few new ones. I am happy and can't wait to see where they lead.
Comments are welcome!