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Hi from chickluvs2cook!
It's Christmas card time again...and I absolutely love getting all of your cards & recipes in the mail each day! I
can hardly wait to start trying them. This is my 4th
year to participate in this card swap, and I have been waiting anxiously
for it to start.
If you have found your way here you
have probably received my Christmas postcard. I send postcards
because I think they are fun and an easy way to mail Christmas wishes
to a lot of people (they also can be saved and used as a recipe
card.). All I have to do then is direct the receiver to my blog and
they can get all of my info here. So, here goes...
I
live in Yorkville, IL, which is a suburb of Chicago and in what they
consider the Fox Valley area. I am married to an incredible man named
Mike and we have a 4 year old puppy named Kiki that we adopted
from a shelter. We don't have kids of our own, but love spending time
with our nieces and nephews. They range in age from 7 yrs. old to 25
yrs. old ~ 5 boys and 2 girls. We travel a lot to see them b/c they
live in IL, IN, KS and AR (at least the younger ones - the older ones
actually come to us).
I am the General Manager of an
environmental consulting firm located in Geneva, IL and enjoy my job
(most of the time). But I really love my "part-time" job...selling
Wildtree products (
www.mywildtree/brigette)!
I have so much fun meeting new people, while helping them feed their families the Wildtree
way...simple.healthy.natural.
As for hobbies, the
main one is cooking...everything and anything about cooking. I collect
cookbooks, watch the FoodNetwork every chance I get, and love to try
and develop new recipes. I have even won a couple of local contests
and aspire to winning a big one one day. I have been cooking since I
was little and would help my grandmother in the kitchen. She taught
me so much in our 16 years together.
If you like great community
cookbooks, you need to check out the one I helped compile and publish
for a local women's club that I am a member of here in Yorkville -
www.yorkvillejwc.com. I have really enjoyed being a part of this group of amazing women all working for the betterment of community. Even with all of the hard work we do to raise funds and give of our time we still manage to have a great time, and I have made some wonderful life-long friends.
Something
that my husband and I like to do together is cake decorating...and if
you knew my husband, you'd be even more surprised - he is 6'3" and
football player big, but can decorate a cake like you wouldn't believe.
We have taken the 3 main Wilton classes together and had a blast.
He was laid-off from his corporate job of 14 years at this time last year, and I am happy to report that he was able to find another job in the same field just for another company. Actually a smaller competitor of the large corporation he worked for previously. It has been a true blessing for him to find a job he enjoys with far less stress involved.
My other hobby (like I
need one more thing to do) is photography. I take pictures of
everything...I'm kind of the family historian shall we say. I find it
so amazing to capture a moment in time and have it to look back on
whenever I want to remember or relive the memory.
Well, that is about it for me. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Eat, pray, love,
Brigette (TOH BB - chickluvs2cook)
