First Week Back to Work

Hubby has now been back to work for a full week.  Things are doing well.  He was given his first set of challenges immediately and so far he has proving his worth.  He is happy to be back to doing something more then cleaning house.  Though he misses the kids and they miss him.  Wednesday my little guy asked on the way home “how many more days until daddy is home with us all the time?”  It was hard not to say “I hope not for many years” but instead I just simply said “well it could be awhile,,,but he will be home with you on Saturday”.  This luckily satisfied him and he was off on a “beg” about going to play with his friends.

So we are getting back into the swing of things around here.  I have a few hours every morning when I am totally by myself.  I have forgotten how quite the house can be at times.  At this moment all I can here is the quite hum of the dishwasher and the water in the the fish tank.  It is nice,,though I do miss my husband being here with me,,it is nice to be falling back into a normal routine.

One of the jobs we have to  get back into is planning for the day we both work.  Making sure the kids back packs are ready with there clothes for the day.  Even when my spouse was working before he would come home from work and make dinner for the family on the night I worked.  Most nights though, this was easy because I think I might be the crock pot queen.  Even before we had children I would cook in the crock pot several times per week.  Mostly this was due to our different schedules.  We have always worked somewhat opposite of each other.  When I was not working weekends he was working nights.  So it just made since to use the crock pot.  In 16 yrs of marriage I have “cooked” out two crock pots.

Yesterday, though I tried something new and it proves as my mom said “there is no need for people not to cook”.  Tyson has put out a pre-packaged meal that is perfect for the crock pot.  It is in the meat department (it is not frozen food).  The meal consisted of pot roast, carrots, red potato’s, celery and onions.  It even came with its own seasoning packet and directions.  The cost,,,around $10.  They also have one for vegetable beef stew.  Granted with the post roast, I would have preferred more potato’s and carrots,,,but I relay wanted to try this out.  For our meal I added corn bread and corn on the cob.  It turned out great and it was so easy,,no chopping or preparing.  I just had to wash it off and put it in the pot (I didn’t use the crock post last night as I was home all day).  So this defiantly could be a solution to one of our meal nights.  That is of course if in this day of re-calls we find out there is something bad with this product!