Welcome to Bobbie’s Home Preserves! It has taken a while for me to get here.
These last few months have been difficult and stressful. When the Pandemic hit, it threw us all for a loop, turning our lives upside down from one day to the next. At the beginning of our social isolation, I would wake up in the morning thinking “How could it be that the whole world has just stopped?” It was hard to wrap my brain around that for a long time. It took a while to adjust to not going to work, not seeing anyone other than my immediate family. I missed my friends and going out. I missed being busy – there are only so many books I could read or so much tv I could watch! I started deep cleaning my house, re-organizing my closets and making bread along with everyone else … Soon enough though, I asked myself “Now what?” I decided to tackle something I’d been wanting to do for years: create my own website. My friends and family know I am not a techie. It was a challenge (and stressful!), but boy, was it fun! I worked so hard at pouring myself into it and I have to say that I am very proud of it. My website was born!
Let me introduce myself. My name is Bobbie. I love being in my gardens and in my kitchen. I am a wife to a retired high school Principal and mom to two great boys. Our family is made complete by a lovable Labradoodle named Griffin. I thrive at creating community-based educational projects in an East-end Montreal high school, but I absolutely adore making preserves whenever I can! With a constant short supply of time, I have discovered that making my preserves helps to ground me. Gathering fruit and vegetables, washing, dicing, carefully measuring sweet or savory ingredients, and then diligently watching them all boil to just the right temperature; these are things that bring deep satisfaction to my soul. This ancient process of preserving food nourishes my spirit. Take a look at My Story to see how my journey began.
