~Crock Pot Mama~

My new Crock Pot!

So recently I have been obsessed with cooking out of the crock pot, I don't know why? It could  possibly have something do with the fact that there are so many delicious crock pot recipes on Pinterest?!..hmm yup that would make sense. So this fall and even bits and pieces of this summer I have made numerous meals that it has become an obsession! An obsession so deep that I feel the need to make every single part of our family's meals out of a crock pot! But how can i do that with one crock pot? Well that would be an easy answer! GO BUY MORE CROCK POTS KIMBERLY!!....Yes I shall!..So I gave in to that little person on my shoulder and convinced by awesome hubbs to buy me one! And so he did!!!..Problem Solved!

So to give you some background info, (because I wasnt always a fan)... Wil and I got our very first crock pot the first year we were married from my parents for Christmas. I used it once, maybe twice and i actually think Wil was the one who used it to make Pork Roast and Sauerkraut. I at the point had no desire to cook, so i really didn't take interest in CPC (Crock Pot Cooking), because for some odd reason I thought it was complicated..What the heck was wrong with me?!?! crock pot cooking is so freaking easy! and thats why I love it today.

With my precious little Lando its hard to spend hours in the kitchen making a gourmet meal, but thanks to Pinterest it has changed my life! and with a bibity bobity boom, dinner is served! I found that I can make mostly anything in Crock Pot! It's freakishly AMAZING..And I have now taken it to the next level and made pre-made crock pot meals that I gathered and made into a Zip lock bag and froze, so on my lazy days I just dump it into my crock pot and we have dinner for the night!..AMAZING!..I even started using slow cooker liners, which has taken it to an even HIGHER level!! Because the only thing I would say I EVER disliked about CPC was the cleanup!..omg it was horrible, I would usually have to let it sit over night in soapy water, scrub and put my back into it just to get it clean!.. It was so much maintenance!..And now I' am so thankful for those darn liners! and thankful that I have a second crock pot!..because now I never have to clean MUAHAHA!!..jk jk

Yup! I was like a little girl on Christmas!

Nothing like taking cooking to the next level!..I know I'm a freak!..but hey atleast I' am feeding my family!..and that's what it is all about!....

CRaYoLa ReHab

So we all know Landon loves to color, it his favorite thing to do and it's the only thing that he will sit there and do for any extended period of time. We also encourage Landon to color, because we like him to express his creativity. But It has become a HUGE problem! as if him coloring every inch of our house wasn't a problem but today he hit top notch, I even think above and beyond that too! So we went over to our sweet neighbors house to work on crafts, and he manged to find their only pen upstairs and got ink all over something important, and then he manged to find the markers that were hid and DREW all over their walls!.I was SOO embarrassed. And as bad as that was, it wasn't the worst part of his little addiction today! 

So we went to the craft store to pick up some things and within a blink of an eye he manged to escape from me, and he went strait to were they had their permanent markers, and he drew all over their floor!!!.. bright red, big circles, all over the place! OH MY FRIGGIN GOODNESS!..HE DID NOT!..I seriously wanted to hide under a rock, or make a run for it!..but of course I did the right thing and got one of the employees, I apologized profusely  and she said it was no big deal, it would clean right up!.Well that was SOOO wrong, they practically had to burn the floor just to get the ink out, no, wait worse!..they basically had to strip the wax off the floor because it was embedded in the wax!..I was mortified and I wanted to cry! I couldn't believe that happened, and of course growing up I was always told "You break it, you buy it." So I had butterflies in my stomach worrying the whole time the manager was going to come up to me and tell me I needed to pay for a new strip and wax job in their craft store!! gahh!!..not what I wanted to spend Christmas money on, that would of been horrible if I had to explain to Wil that for Christmas we were paying a craft store to get their floors redone! Thanks to Yours truly, Lando!..Well needless to say, that didn't happen..I just felt bad when I walked by and saw a little old lady on her hands and knees trying to remove my sons artwork with a can of WD-40!...So from that point on I knew that was IT!..This boy is going to Crayola Rehab!..We have taken all his markers, crayons, and colored pencils away!.. and he is only to use them under EXTREME supervision, if he fails to adhere we have agreed to start putting him in time out for 2 minutes!..Ya I know.. It's practically a slap on the wrist, but he's not even 2 yet! I was not expecting to deal with my 21 month old child doing this stuff!..I thought I had at least 3 more months before I was going to start ripping my hair out! LOL!..oh good times........