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I’m Melanie Kathryn. I have a ♥ heart for baking bread and creating healthy and sweet recipes that are family friendly.
I’m passionate about bringing people around the table for bread, good food and great conversation.
I love coffee, the sunshine, chocolate, running, being by the water.
I’m passionate about many things but let’s start with my first love, my love for Jesus. I’m passionately driven to encourage community. I love to gather people at the table and savor the gifts of food and life. And this blog is a space where I can share my journey and adventures in gathering, hosting, baking and more.
Food is what brings people together. My kitchen is my happy place where I bake bread, delicious desserts, pizza, pretzels and take all my photographs.
This blog started as a means to share my kitchen adventures. You see I didn’t grow up baking or cooking. During he first few years of our marriage I relied too often on boxed food, cans and frozen items. I occasionally cooked but didn’t venture from a recipe at all. Fast forward 10 years and I got braver in the kitchen. I began to try new things, developing a desire to learn and wanting to conquer yeast in the kitchen! So I started with a simple loaf and from there, my love for bread and baking grew.
I still cook because there are hungry mouths to feed around here but baking is my jam.
This man right here, was my treasure. We were married 18 years. I’m not sure who I’d be without this guy by my side. Our marriage was amazing but it has had its share of ups and downs just like all marriages. I’m so thankful for this man that God that placed in my life. But now God called him home to heaven in 2018. You can read about that here.
2016
These are the 3 sweet faces that I get to call my own. The personality and characteristics in these kids astound me every day. I’ve been a momma for 22 years and I still don’t know what I’m doing!
2024
They used to be this little when daddy was still here but life is good. Sniff. Sniff. But we are doing very well. Better than I could have ever imagined when our life fell apart. We’ve had a large amount of troubles and sorrow in the last 6 years but we are overcomers because of Jesus. He never stopped fighting for us, for our good, for our comfort, for our help.
We will continue to fight the fight until the end. I’m so proud of these three and the huge hurdles they have overcome!
2016
Our life is far from perfect but I’m incredibly blessed to be a mother and I never want to take that for granted. There’s plenty I’ve learned along the way and I know I’ll never stop growing in my patience and love.
My life took another huge turn in 2022 when God blessed me with a new husband. I never prayed or desired a new man but God knew my heart needed him. I can’t get over Gods’ goodness in blessing me with this man. He’s a man after my own heart. We are a match made in heaven. Completely in love, we are in tune with one another in heart and mind and spiritually we are one. It’s been a gift from the start. Falling in love and being in love with this man is truly a miracle of God’s epic proportions.
2023
I grew up in Philadelphia. But now I call South Central Pennsylvania, York County my home.
My official Fun Stuff of Life in my non-complete ultra cool list:
My Family
Coffee
Chocolate
Baking
Photography
Running
Bread
Pretzels
The Beach
Sunsets
Nature
Taking New Adventures
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Note: If you see any older posts that reference “Carmel Moments” that was the original name of this blog (from June 2013 until we re-branded as Gather for Bread in July 2015).
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