Baker's Block

Pictured above: marble pound cake (from Mark Bittman's excellent How to Cook Everything), circa March 2010

I have baker's block. Actually, it's not that I can't think of things I'd like to bake -- I just can't bring myself to do it.

Who's (or what's) to blame? Perhaps it's because I really don't need to add any additional calories to my 8+ month pregnant frame that seems to fill out more and more every day without any help from baked goods. Or maybe it's because I know my time should be spent on greater priorities: prenatal exercises, reading some Dr. Spock, checking off the remaining items on my pre-baby-arrival to do list, etc. Or the culprit could be the speed bumps that seem to have been thrown my way lately, many for which I have to assume complete responsibility -- for example, most of today has been spent treating stains on brand new mom and baby clothes (who knew one small, black, unremoved sales tag could shred into a billion bits in the washing machine and proceed to stain an entire load of pastel laundry?). 

Maybe once the little one arrives I will snap out of it, or maybe I'll have to rename my blog Nursing, Laundering, Sleep Deprivation, Couture & Cie...

Comments

[Blair]

Awww, sister! I love ya!!