There’s nothing better than homemade chicken stock, aside from the fact that it makes the whole flat smell amazing, it’s delicious and healthier than a stock cube.

I made some stock over the weekend and it filled the house with an amazing aroma that felt like warm a embrace. The experience of putting the ingredients together, filling the pot with water, and bringing it to a slow simmer got me thinking about how the best things in life take time and patience over a slow simmer. I should know, my husband and I were together for AGES before we finally tied the knot — and we did it was absolute perfection.

Yes, there are things life that we would like to happen sooner but they don’t and that’s life. Sometimes the things we want the most don’t happen at all, so you learn from it and move on. Perhaps I’m having all these thoughts because I’m at a bit of a crossroads in my career. Truth be told there’s nothing I would love more than to be doing something that incorporates one of the things I love, food, art, or design.

Then I remember that just like the chicken stock that needs to have the right ingredients and time to simmer, so does life.

Is there anything in life that you waited patiently for while it simmered on a low heat?