09/18/2026
I’ve been trying to figure out what to say about this for a while, and I think I kept trying to make excuses saying ‘I’ll be ready next week…’ and then next week turned in to the next week and so on. Sooo… truth. I’m not ready to reopen, and I don’t see myself being truly ready anytime soon.
The move, new schedules, new house, new everything has taken its toll. The love of baking is still there, but the reality is…I’m just not there right now. And it finally made more sense today. I baked a cake to make cake pop dough for cake pops & I got 2 phone calls in less than an hour with separate incident reports on the kids & then my daughter woke up after a 12 minute nap. I had an entire morning ‘planned’ on how I’d get the dough done, make two phone calls I desperately needed to make regarding some grad school issues & then hopefully have enough time to get some house chores done.
Besides all that…the space I want to use in our basement is light years away from being ready. My kitchen is far too limited to set up any kind of bake area. I’m already pushing it with my regular bakeware, and I’ve purged A LOT. But even if I had the space tomorrow, there’s so much more going on.
I started grad school at Fordham Law School in August, and even though classes are only two days a week, the demands are high. I am also working through dietary restrictions and diagnoses with my daughter that require medical intervention, while helping the boys adjust to all these changes. New sleeping arrangements, Jack saying he doesn’t want to live in “this home” 😭… and other things I don’t feel belong on social media. I could go ON.
But the truth is, I don’t have a village. I know we’ve only been back in Kansas for a few months, but the reality of what I can manage becomes clearer every day.
This is not what God is calling me to do right now, and I need to let it be. I feel peace saying that, even though I still love baking and everything I built with Adriane’s Oven.
Maybe someday I’ll be able to rebuild my brand and do this again. But today isn’t that day, and realistically, it won’t be for a long time.
So Adriane’s Oven will remain closed for the foreseeable future. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, checked in, or asked when I’ll be baking again. It means a lot that something I loved doing became something you looked forward to, too.
Bye friends & thanks for being here the last couple years 👋🏽
