09/06/2026
Hello friends! 🫶🏼
First off, I want to say how completely blown away I am by the love, encouragement, and support you all sent my way while I took some time to focus on finding a new balance. 💛
I truly cannot put into words how much your messages, prayers, understanding, and kindness have meant to me. I was so nervous to share where I was at, but you all met me with so much grace, and I am incredibly grateful for that.
When I first started baking, it was never with the intention of building something big. It began as an outlet — a place to create, to make something with my hands, and to rediscover a little piece of myself in the middle of the beautiful, exhausting, sometimes incredibly hard transition into motherhood.
What started as a creative outlet slowly became something so much bigger than I ever imagined. Bre’s Bread has brought me so much joy. I’ve loved every loaf, every order, every message, every familiar face, and every person who has supported this little dream of mine. I will forever be grateful that something I created during such a difficult season became something that brought joy to so many other people, too.
But somewhere along the way, I had to be honest with myself.
The thing that was once helping me find myself in motherhood has started to take away from my presence in it.
And that was never what this was intended to do.
There is so much more behind the scenes that people will never see. The planning, preparing, feeding starters, mixing, stretching, shaping, proofing, baking, cooling, packaging, cleaning, ordering, messages, pickups, and everything in between. It is so much more than simply putting bread in the oven.
And somewhere along the way, keeping up with all of it started to feel less like creating and more like pressure.
My babies are only little once. There are little hands to hold, questions to answer, messes to clean up, moments to soak in, and a home that needs my presence. I don’t want to look back someday and realize I was so busy building something that I missed the very season of life that inspired me to create it in the first place.
So, for this season, I’m taking a significant step back from baking.
As of now, I’ll be taking almost the entire month of September off. I’m going to use this time to slow down, breathe, and really find a new balance for our family.
I’m not walking away from baking completely. 🤎
I’ll still be baking — just at my own rhythm.
There may be fewer bakes, limited availability, spontaneous menus, or weeks where I don’t bake at all. I’m going to let Bre’s Bread flow with our family and the season of life we’re in.
I want baking to become what it was meant to be for me again: something creative, something joyful, something I can pour my heart into when I have the time and space for it. I want to create because I love creating — not because I feel like I have to keep up.
I’m also really excited about this next season of our family. I’ll be homeschooling my daughter, and I’m so excited to pour my time and energy into that. I want to be present for the little things, the ordinary days, the learning, the creating, the messes, the cuddles, and all of the moments I know I’ll wish I could have back someday.
And in the meantime, I’d love to still share pieces of this part of my life with you. Maybe some baking tips and tricks, things I’ve learned along the way, little behind-the-scenes moments, recipes, and the things that have helped me throughout these years of baking. I’d love for this space to become more about sharing the joy of making than feeling like I always have to be producing something.
This isn’t an easy decision. There is so much emotion that comes with changing something I’ve poured so much love, time, and energy into. But I also know that sometimes making the right choice means making more room for the things that matter most.
I hope that with some space, I can find the joy of making again.
Not baking because I have to.
Not baking because I’m trying to keep up.
Not baking because there is pressure to produce.
But baking because I want to.
Creating because it brings me joy.
Making things with my hands simply because I love to make.
So this is not goodbye to Bre’s Bread. It’s just a new rhythm.
A slower one.
A healthier one.
One that allows room for my family, my motherhood, my creativity, and the things that matter most. 🫶🏼
I’m still here. I’m still baking. I’m still creating. I’m just giving myself permission to do it differently — and to enjoy it again. 🥹🤎
