Christmas came early at our home today. Our last stove was dying, and my anger with it didn’t help it any. With Sarah’s busy schedule, the fact that our last stove didn’t have features like time bake and delay bake really was causing problems. I grew up in a home with time bake, and one of the favorite memories was when my dad would throw a ham into the over on Sunday morning, and we could sit in church knowing that it was going to be ready to serve when we got home. Mom would also do the same thing with a lasagna during the week, setting the time bake before running errands in the afternoon. Without the time bake, Sarah and I were tied to the stove while cooking, and it really was a pain.

We ordered our stove as an early Christmas present. One other major change is that the old stove was electric, and the new one is gas. We didn’t have gas growing up, but my in-laws do, and I really liked it when we lived out there a couple years ago. So, for very little money, we ran the gas back up to the stove area upstairs on Monday, and got the new stove hooked up today.