Today was a good day...then I got up!

Ok...so I grabbed the line out of the Movie "Freakey Friday". I like quoting movies every once in a while. So for those of you who doesn't know the movie...this phrase is used by this guy who thinks that everybody is out to get him and everything always goes wrong for him. That's kind of how I felt today...might have something to do with the fact that I have had very little sleep the past few days due to sick kids, first Hayden then Juls and now Bellamie. But I'm happy to report that she's doing much better this morning, knock on wood, after 3 days of about 103 of fever! :(
Anyways...this blog is to give you some insights on a couple of things that I have learned.
First, never put the removable inside liner of your slow cooker in the stove!!! Even if it is stoneware and it's "suppose" to be stove and oven safe!! I was feeling very tired after a failed attempt to take a nap and I wanted to do something that was going to be fast and pretty much take care of itself for dinner. So I decided to just throw a beef stew on the slow cooker. I used to hate slow cookers...but I learned to really like mine and to actually use it. So I decided to speed things up a little by putting the liner in the stove just for a minute to start things out. So as soon as the stew was boiling I went to remove the liner to put it back on the slow cooker and the bottom broke off from the liner!!! Can you believe it? You should have seen my face and the mess on my stove!!! Potatoes, carrots, onions and beef everywhere! Chad got home and saw that mess, I couldn't clean right away because it was too hot and I was too mad! He then asked me if the kids learned a few new words today! :) The answer is no...I did not enriched their vocab! So remember...slow cooker stoneware liners and stove together are not a good thing!
The second thing that I learned I'll have to leave it for later. Bellamie is back to not feeling so well right now. So I better get going. Have a great weekend all!

Hugs and making messes,

Tine

P.S. Tomorrow the 12th of June is Valentine's day in Brasil!! So if you need a reason to celebrate something or to go out on a date...there you go! ;) Happy Valentine's day! And happy birthday today to my brother Daniel!