I’m back?

Where have I been? Where did I go?

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Mostly busy with these ones. Oh and I moved!
Hoping to get some blogging in.

Missmash

It took me reading a friends blog iheartthisblog, to come to the realization that the suckage of my blog is at an all time high. I have no interesting pictures, I have no tutorials, I have no crazy stories, I have no excitement. I guess it depends on what your definition of excitement is though. I found a new blog this week, that really brought up the question of excitement in my blog. Have you seen Almost Fearless? If you haven’t you should really check it out, it’s an amazing travel blog that makes you want to sell all of your belongings and become a gypsy…well kind of!

I have been doing really good at making home cooked meals this week, except for this evening, we ordered pizza. Last night we had sesame beef, a really good recipe I got from Martha Stewart. I usually find her recipes a bit bland but this has become a favourite in this household.

The night before that I am ashamed to admit that I had popcorn for dinner, it was home made, I gave the girls a more nutritious meal, no need to call child services!

Tonight I am finishing off a great bottle of wine. A wine that I have fallen in love with  and only want to drink for the rest of time. I wouldn’t usually suggest a bottle of wine but this one is GOOD! It is from South Africa…

Stormy Bay Cabernet Sauvignon. So good and easy to drink.

I am going to try to take lots of photo’s this weekend and have lots to post about. I really want to keep this blog going but it is a real struggle with two kids. Here’s to family adventures and sunny weekends!

Chicken Caesar

Well my goal came dangerously close to being a complete failure on day 2!

I came home to a house with drywall dust everywhere and new window trimming. My husband has a problem with having time off and not working, he can’t help himself, he has to keep busy.

I forgot to take a picture of my meal, but I made a chicken caesar salad. I cheated though and picked up an already cooked chicken at the grocery store. I forgot to take something out of the freezer, a main component in making at home meals. I will do better tomorrow.

What would you feed these monkeys?

New Year, new start

Hello all! Welcome to 2012, I’m not one for resolutions, have I mentioned that before, but I must say I am going to try to write more often.

To challenge myself, save money and maybe lose some weight I am going to attempt to make home cooked meals for the month of January unless pressured (ha, ha) into going out. Since heading back to work I haven’t been to good at making meals and I have brought home stuff to eat a little to often.

I am also hoping by doing this it might provide for more content for this place. Maybe some tutorials, maybe some pictures, maybe some comedic stories.

Tonight, I smoked out my kitchen while making fettuccine Alfredo and breaded chicken. The smoke was because my oven is over due for a cleaning not because I burnt something. No pictures though, forgot about that. Instead I will share a couple of pictures of what I have been up to while neglecting this fine place.

Struggles

As 2011 comes to a close, I can’t help but look back and take stock of what has happened and how I am feeling right now.

2011 is the year I stayed home with my children, learning how to be a mom of two.

Now that I have returned to work I am struggling to be a mother of two, wife of one, friend and employee. I am looking for balance, I am looking for a flow. I think the flow is coming but I am unsure I am happy with it. But as flows go, I guess I should just go with it.

I am unable to cook like I usually do and therefore lack in food related blog posts. I haven’t even used my crock pot yet!

I am not a maker of resolutions as I don’t like expectations and unfulfilled promises, but I am looking at 2012 and hoping to become a better parent, with more patience and understanding. I am hoping to find a calm in the chaos of my life, I am hoping to get more time with just my husband that takes us away from the home and away from the responsibility of parenting. I am also hoping for time for myself and with friends.

Can I fulfill these hopes?

Slow Cooker

I am still struggling with this whole working mommy thing. I can’t find my flow yet and I can’t figure out how to get everything done including posting in this blog.

I have decided that I have to break out the old slow cooker and start preparing the evening meals in advance. The thing is I don’t have any real good slow cooker recipes. When I used to look I  would always find recipes using a lot of canned goods and that is not how I want to cook for my family.

Do you have any good recipes you want to share…

Ha, ha. Silly Mommy

Just for a laugh I thought I would share my embarrassing and head shaking moment.

I obviously have been wearing yoga pants for way too long this round. I keep forgetting to do up my pants! I do the buttons up but about an hour later when I go to undo them I notice I haven’t done the zipper up! This hasn’t happened once, twice or even three times! It happens each day since I have returned to work multipe times in a day!

Hopefully one day I will remember that I am back in the world of the professional and not in the world of mommyhood.