Heart & Soul Food

It's been a really long time since I blogged about anything. Not sure why. I keep thinking I should but nothing has really hit me to write about and like I've said before I have to be moved to write.
I have been moved lately by a friend of mine who is going through a very tough time right now. His wife has left and he is facing being a single father. He never really cooked before but he has started to make huge strides to create fabulous meals for his kids. Mind you his kids are only 2 & 4. They would probably be happy with an Eggo waffle or a bowl of Lucky Charms for breakfast but instead he makes things like a Dutch Baby Pancake and Carne Adovada breakfast burritos. He's putting his heart & soul into his food. Maybe it's to comfort himself partly but it's also because he feels this is one way he can be a good dad. I admire this about him because for so long I put my heart in soul into the food I'd make my family & then one day I sorta stopped. Once I was working outside the house it just became such a chore to create good meals and I lost my passion. Seeing him not only teach himself how to cook & to cook well has been an inspiration to me. I started looking for new recipes..I started digging through my old recipes...basically I started putting effort into what I feed my family again. Not that my family was neglected in the food area by any means but I wasn't really putting any love into what I was making anymore. It feels good to be creating things for them to eat that I have put some heart into. Even if they don't like it, I feel that I'm doing something for them with love behind it. I by no means think that every mom & dad have to cook meals...but if you have something else you always did and then lost your passion for because you were either too tired, overwhelmed, lazy or just felt it really wouldn't matter to them anyway...it's amazing when you find your passion again how good it feels! It's kinda like I found part of my heart agian.