so i guess before i get to carried away with this blogedy, with pictures of lovely things and yummy foods and life as of today, i want to start with a recap from the past years.
it has been a long time since i "blogged" (xanga, anyone?!) and i remember even while keeping that, i liked to look back on previous posts and see all that has happened, and how my life had changed so dramatically in just those few years. so i guess for now, while this thing gets off the ground and i actually start sharing posts, i will be speaking to my future self! so very exciting isn't it? to think about future selves...anyway.
i will start with, oh geeze, where do i start? has it really been almost five years? where have i been? what have i been doing?! oh yes, life.

to be continued...

dinner time

its a wet, cold, blustery day outside, so no time is better than this to use the slow cooker for a warm & scrumptious dinner! 

on the menu: chicken & sweet potato stew.

Ingredients
8 chicken breast(s) cubed
4 sweet potato(es) peeled and cubed
4 yellow potatoes cubed
4 carrot(s) sliced
1.568 kg whole tomatoes canned
5 ml salt
5 ml black pepper
2.5 ml cinnamon
1.25 ml nutmeg
10 ml paprika
10 ml celery seed
120 ml fresh basil
480 ml chicken broth

Directions
Combine all ingredients in slow cooker
Cover; cook on Low 6-8 hours or High 3-4 hours.

doubled, & with my own variations, of course. (hey, im feeding three hungry working men tonight okay?)

lookin good! (i mustn't get too ahead of myself, still havent tasted it yet)

date day

husband & i went to fota wildlife park yesterday for our monday. we saw

zebras

giraffes

and lemurs.

also, life is crazy. but we are learning.