Angie

I think the cooking really helped me get into that a lot because it's such a love language for me.

Like I've always loved cooking and I love cooking for everybody else.

So like that made me feel so

capable in the kitchen makes me feel in control you know because i know what i'm doing with these things and i know what the timing of everything is like so it's my my little center of control right like i can't control anything else but i can control how this dinner is gonna look right so um that helped me a lot personally you know the cooking especially

you know when everybody enjoyed it and they weren't faking it you know so that was even the best thing like i remember one of the girls was um she when i first the first meal i cooked i think was like a marry me chicken or something like that she's like dang that chicken was fire and she had never talked to me before right she's like chicken was fire she's like and that rice was perfect i was like i've been making rice since i was like eight you know

And so that felt really good, you know, so I was just like, okay, well, I'll keep cooking, you know, and then every time I cook, no complaints, you know, and it was that made me feel really capable.

When I left, I was still really nervous, but I felt more grounded.

I felt more capable.

I felt more sure of myself as a mother.

Right.

So next I had to work on all the other areas.

Right.

Like I had to get my foot back in the door of like school to get, you know, where I wanted to go.

Right.

And it gave me the confidence to do it.

You know, it gave me the confidence to actually be like, yeah, I can do that instead of like, oh, no, I don't know if I can or making excuses.

So I'm good at making excuses for myself, you know, or no, I have a kid or oh, no, I can't do it with my son or blah, blah, blah.

No, Harvest Home gave me the confidence to say I can do this and that and more.

You know what I mean?

And I did.