I don't know much, but I'm learning.

A while back I revamped the old Mori Challenge prompts! I wanted to wait to start them until I had finish art fight and the cringe prompts I was working on. Now that I've finished those, I'm ready to begin. I will be completing Draw and Write this time around and compiling them into a single post for each prompt. I'll also be going at my own pace, finishing them as fast or as slow as I feel like! Follow along or join in if you like! WRITE Write about eating or preparing your favorite/a meaningful meal. Cooking and baking have been really important to me since I was a child. Some of my earliest memories are helping my grandma prepare lunch in her kitchen, or baking Christmas sweets with my mom, or learning cooking skills with my dad. Almost everyone in my family bakes or cooks, at least in some capacity.  Making food together with someone is a special way to build a relationship. You learn a lot about that person, their family, their culture, and more, from what kind of food...

This month's prompt was a bit of a tricky one for me. The phrase "sugar, spice and everything nice" is something I know from my childhood, but upon looking it up I realized I actually know nothing about it. Here's a brief history lesson on this old saying: It comes from an old poem. "What Little Boys Are Made Of" , likely first published in the 1800s. The exact meaning of it is uncertain, but historically over the years it was used to contrast what boys and girls are like, ie. boys are rambunctious and ambitious, and girls are soft and feminine. It's also used as an idiom to mean anything pleasant. It wasn't a phrase that was used much when I was growing up, at least not by my parents, but I can remember my grandmother using it once to say I should be more ladylike. (And there is a good argument to be made that this phrase and others like it echo similar sentiments to "boys will be boys" , but perhaps that's a bit off topic.) So how do ...