Slow cooker orange chicken...EPIC FAIL

I am a slow cooker novice, this recipe was my second attempt at being a good working mom who cooks fabulous meals and has everything under control...yeah, not so much.

I didn't know it was possible to screw up a slow cooker meal, really - it sounds simple no? You mix all the ingredients together, turn it on low and magic should create in the crock...well, its a crock of you know what.

This is what the meal should have looked like, looks yum-o right?

This is what it actually looked like after 6 hours on low...yes, it resembles road kill. It was gritty and grainy, I could not eat it - the sauce was okay, so that was good over the rice (probably because I was starving).

So my friends...how do you stop things from over cooking in the slow cooker? I was so upset after this dinner that I threw all the left overs in the garbage - and there were a lot of left overs! I wasted my money and time shopping for the ingredients, thank goodness I had a big bottle of wine to wash down the sour taste this left in my mouth.

Tomorrow I am trying Gina's Crock Pot Chicken Taco Chili, everything is prepped and ready to go...hopefully we have an epic success this time around

Baby Boom...and a dilemma

Is it me or is EVERYONE either having a baby or have a newborn?? I took a quick spin through my favorite blogs and it seems that babies (especially baby girls) are on the forefront.


I. LOVE. IT


Oh, and I love you ladies - thank you for commenting, hope you can all start following again. I promise this time I wont go MIA. I feel terrible about missing the last year - there is so much I had to talk about and so much I could have shared with you but I simply didn't have the time.  But now, I am back at work - and what better way to spend my lunch break than with you?


I have a question for you Mommy's out there - would you turn your baby's car seat to be forward facing before their first birthday?

Here is my dilemma: Emma is 10 1/2 months old, she is approx 25lbs and 30" tall, right now her car seat is rear facing (we have an Eddie Bauer 3-in-1 convertible car seat).  She meets the age and height requirements to be forward facing - just not the age.

When I pick up Emma from daycare (i.e. my mom's house lol) she screams the whole way home.  Its about a 25 minute drive and there is nothing I can do to console her.  She doesn't pull this crap with my husband though - only me.  I don't know if she just misses me (obviously!) or if she is afraid of the dark or what.  Normally she sleeps in the car, but at 5:30pm she's not tired at all.  She is just so used to spending all her time with me and since I have been back to work everything is different.

So - I was thinking if I turned her seat around to face forward it might make the commute a lot more enjoyable for the both of us. It just breaks my heart to hear her crying and do nothing to comfort her.

Help!!



Gettin y'all up to speed

Okay, so I am not southern but for some reason "getting y'all up to speed" seemed like the appropriate title for this newest post.  So what's been going on with me since I last visited blog land?

• Brought my gorgeous Emma into the world on Thursday February 25th, 2010 at 6:08pm

• Went on maternity leave from work,was home for 11 months, returned to work on January 3rd 2011.
• Did lots of activities with Emma during the summer, lots of little road trips and bonding family time
• Enjoyed a wonderful Christmas, everything for Emma of course...
• Here are couple of pictures

Hope you can all start following me again!

Back to blog...

Remember me? I have been MIA for a long long long time...I think I stopped blogging when I was just a few weeks pregnant - in the summer of 2009. Its now 2011, I have a gorgeous 10 1/2 month old daughter and life could not be better.

Truth be told, I stopped blogging because I simply did not have the time...and I really started to miss all of my followers and all the blogs I was reading. I hope to catch up with all of you again, can't wait to see how you're all doing and can't wait to share my new life as working mommy with you.