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Baking is a relief

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Lately, I found out that baking or cooking relieves my stress. When I cannot think, when I cannot write script or when I'm just too lazy to do anything - or any work because of stress. I found joy in whipping something in the kitchen.  While I concentrate on measuring the flour, sugar and other ingredients - the stillness serves me just right. As I am used in multi-tasking, in baking or cooking, multi-tasking is not advisable. If you want your family to enjoy what you have cooked or baked and not a disaster meal or cookies - you have to pay attention to what you are doing. Right now, I am trying to bake lemon squares. With the help of my two lilliputians, the lemon squares is already in the oven - baking. I can smell the aroma right now. I like the smell of anything baked. It makes me feel that I am really home. and visitors like the smell too. It gives them a truly homey feel. And while I am distressing while sifting the flour and the sugar - my girls are slowly lea...