Kitchen Meets Culinary Clutz

Hi friends,

My name is Rebekah. I am  a mother of 4 beautiful kids & the proud wife of a USAF veteran who is currently serving our country. I am a HQ Special Education Para Professional, a Culinary Arts Graduate, Home Chef & a City Chick turned Country Girl! I was born & raised in San Francisco. I am the second born of four kids. My Father is a Rabbi for a Jewish Congregation in Boise, Idaho and my Mama is a retired school teacher. When I was a child my father loved to travel! Daddy's dream was to move away from the city & live off the rugged land like The Wilderness Family. When the Cascade Mountains fell in love with us, we packed up and moved to Central Oregon. Then the Snake River Mountains whispered rugged nothings into our ears so we moved to Southwestern Idaho where I met & married my Ohio Country Boy who was stationed at Mountain Home AFB!

I jumped into instant motherhood when I married my Country Boy. He has two sons from his first marriage, I love those boys! Then, I gave birth to two daughters. They are my miracle babies! I nearly lost both girls when my body tried rejecting both pregnancies during the first trimester.

Every day we meet new challenges while raising kids with special needs. We've been through it all. Whether it's dealing with the struggles of my sons overcoming Maternal Detachment Syndrome, suffered from a painful childhood caused their birth mother, or triumphing the woes of  ADHD and Asperger's Syndrome, we keep marching into the light like fearless soldiers ready to take-on anything in our path.

Together my Country Boy & I, along with our brood of kids, have traveled the world. Wherever the U.S. Air Force sends my man, we will go together as one Unit.

We don't leave the country much these days, now that the older kids have entered high school. It hasn't stopped my Country Boy from traveling abroad. He's an Electronics Engineer. He flies all over the world and brings home treasures from his monthly trips. Did I mention my smartypants husband works at USAF Headquarters and is Lead Command of the Air Force? Big titles aren't all what they're cut out to be though, with big wig titles come limited family time. Spending time with the family gets penciled into his appointment book too. If not, then we'd never see him! But when we do see him, we make the most out of our time with the big guy!

When we moved back to the U.S. in 2004, I went back to school to earn my Culinary Arts degree while homeschooling our kids! I love to cook, and bake, and experiment! My kids are my guinea pigs, and food critics. I use a few of my colleagues as my food critics also!



So you're probably asking yourself, why Oklahoma? And how did this City Chick stumble into a Country Girl's lifestyle? Well it's simple, officials at the Pentagon decided that my husband's agency needed to be transferred to this vast countryside. I had never been to Oklahoma, and my luxury New England Style Townhouse in it's semi-privatized neighborhood with two swimming pools, tennis courts, private ponds and jogging paths were feeling not so private anymore. So we packed up and moved to Oklahoma. When we learned that we could buy land for next to nothing, we sold our posh $360,000 home and made our way out of Southern Maryland to Central Oklahoma and found us a little piece of heaven with 6-acres next to a lake.

Going from Sheik to Shabby was a challenge! Sure my private luxury home was small compared to the new pad that boasted almost double the square footage. But how does a city girl adjust from the posh lifestyle she knew in The Saint Charles Hampshire, when her new country estate is a 2000 Champion Double Wide Limousine on 6-acres of rugged land? It's simple, I smiled and learned to be thankful that I'm experiencing this new life with my family by my side.

My Country Boy reminds me every day that our Double Wide Limousine situation is temporary, since our original plans were to build a real home on this land when we first made the purchase. Life changes seem to happen at the most in-opportune times. We just need to be patient and make do, right? *Sigh* We lost my husband's father two weeks after we moved to Oklahoma. Paying into the his father's estate and covering all the funeral costs took a huge chunk out of our profit from the sale of our home in Maryland. We had enough money left over to do one thing, and that was to build a garage. The house can wait, besides, our blueprints are still in the works and I'm in no hurry to break ground just yet.

The way I figure it, if I have to live like a country girl then I might as well make the most of it, grow me a garden and raise me some chickens! I like the look people give me when they learn that I raise chickens, ride a garden tractor and chop firewood.  Who knew this princess could pull it off? Ha! Don't worry though , I still leave the house dressed like the designer princess everyone knows me to be!

After five years of living in the country, in my 2000 Champion Double Wide Limousine, I don't think I could ever return to city life. Wherever the government moves us our hearts will never let go of it.  I thank my father for introducing me to this lifestyle when we left the hustle and bustle of our posh lifestyle of nannies and housekeepers in San Francisco, for the rugged simple-life of Central Oregon.


Thank you for taking the time to read my Bio.

Feel free to drop me a line anytime! I'll try my best to respond as swift as possible.

E-Mail: Bekah@TheSouthShoreRanch.com