It is way to cliche to complain about being busy. I am busy because I am privileged to have a job (which I like) and two healthy active kids (who I like). However, these past couple of years have been strenuous. I concede that I have taken certain (i.e. hundreds of) shortcuts to make things easier. Most of these shortcuts I am at peace with, (no vacuuming,wearing unmatched socks on a regular basis, not insisting on nightly baths and no homemade bread ...well, um, that never happened anyway). There are hundreds of these shortened steps, I am sure, that I have gradually succumbed to accepting. However, one of the shortcuts I am not so happy about has been cutting out baking and cutting down on cooking from scratch. Cooking from scratch still happens but lots of shortcuts have been thrown into the mix which have also short changed my joy doing it. In the process of saving time (initially to keep the impatient pleas from kids to a dull roar), I...