Totally is. And Pix knows how fun he can be too.

This! He runs a lovely, relaxing and joyous class.

I was born 5 days after my sister's first birthday. Story was my mom's doctor told her that a woman as old as she was (She was probably 35 or 36) was unlikely to have more kids, esp as she had a couple miscarriages. Mom figured she didn't have to worry, and then... ooops!

I know a couple of people who've been caught out on that one. Shark week hasn't resumed, libido finally comes back on-line, you sieze the moment and then... nine months later... wha wha wha.

I was going through photos I took from our Daffodil Day festival, and the one thing that stood out for me is how dead-eyed the parents/guardians in the pictures are. If I hadn't already had no desire to have kids, this would be the final straw. Pics where their kids are right there and I'm thinking it's all delightful and sh** and they're just slack-faced and grim.

Get the perfect muffin and then get it to the right size. Because it seems like it will affect more than just baking time.

It rises fine in normal tins. I already know that. I can't half make it in jumbo pans--that's one variable, and it's the variable I'm looking to compensate for.

It occurs to me that if I make the tins less slippery, that might help too.

Can't hurt?

No, but it could put the recipe over the limt for "first thing Sunday morning" since that's an additional electrical device It needs a food processor already, which is irritating. I will test next week.

If I hadn't already had no desire to have kids, this would be the final straw

You frame it like parents just are dead-eyed, and it's because of their kids. But they're also bubbling with pride or tenderness or whatever other emotions humans have--I'm not up to date on the most recent releases.

My Mom found out she was pregnant when she went to get birth control a few months after I was born. She'd been breast feeding and didn't think she could get pregnant.

Surprise! She was and my brother and I are 14 months a part.

It's only now occurring to me, I've never made any alterations when switching between muffins and loaves of the same batter other than time in oven. And I generally do just use baking powder (and sourdough, but that hardly counts as leavening in a quick bread, right?). Hm.

Do you not fill the tin to the top, then, if it climbs the walls?

My younger brothers are 1 year, 1 month and 1 day apart. My parents were by that time using birth control, as it had become apparent that we would number in the teens if they continued at the existing rate unaddressed.

I always do. The smaller the container, the less time it takes to cook through.

The batter is shy of the top--not massively, but enough so that I'm expecting the dome muffin top, but instead they're mostly flat.

Right, baking time has to change, but I've never had a loaf not rise like a muffin that I can recall. I may have to experiment.