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GINGER PEAR BREAD -1 cup peeled, cored, and chopped pears -1/2 cup white sugar -1/2 teaspoon ground ginger  -1/4 teaspoon ground cloves  -1/3 cup vegetable oil  -1 teaspoon vanilla extract  -2 eggs, beaten  -1 cup all-purpose flour  -1 teaspoon baking soda  -1/4 teaspoon baking powder  -1/2 teaspoon salt  DIRECTIONS Toss chopped pears with sugar, ginger, and cloves in a large bowl.  Set aside and let the sugar dissolve in the pear juices. Preheat oven to 325. Grease an 8x4-inch loaf pan. Stir vegetable oil, vanilla extract, and eggs into the pears. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.  Add the flour mixture to the pear mixture and stir gently just to combine.  Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. OK so firs...

I know I know...I said a few years ago I was going to write more... then I didn't.   Well things have changed. I mean really really changed.  The mr and I had a baby! The little man is going to be 1 in a few days.  So that really changes life.  I was very lucky that I was able to take 6 months maternity leave from my job! Then when I went back to work mom and dad put their life on hold and came out from the east coast for 6 months.  I also got lucky that my first day back ( as a retail manager) was the day after the day after Christmas! I missed all of the holidays, so that was an extra bonus.  The next step was trying to find a day care that could work with my schedule, which is different every week and I find it out 2 weeks in advance. This proved to be extremely difficult.My work has a life assistance program and I called them several times to try to source day cares. They came back with a list of about 4 each time that didn't 100% meet our ...