Inward Renewal

For the past month or so I’ve been trying to think ahead about Sunday meal preparations.  I want the day to be as relaxing as possible.  Getting home at 12:30 and scrambling for something to eat hasn’t been the most “relaxing” thing I can think of; so, time for a new resolution – plan ahead.

The crock pot is a wonderful invention as it allows you to think ahead about meals and get preparation out of the way.  The crock pot however, has one fatal flaw…it requires electricity!  This past Sunday morning after making coffee cake and placing it in the oven, I prepared Orange Chicken with Sweet Potatos to go in the crock pot.  I was busy mixing spices, juicing and grating an orange when the electricity went out.  The crockpot meal was ready to cook and my coffee cake was half baked.  We had cold cereal.  I left the crockpot plugged in and turned on in hopes that the electricity would come on while we were at church.

After church I phoned a neighbor who let me know the electricity had just come on in the last 30min.  No crockpot lunch.  We had sandwiches.  By dinner time it was over cooked. booo!

The electricity saga continued…Monday morning the power went out 5 different times for 15min to 1hr 30min each time.  I was trying to do laundry, grrrr.  Tuesday it went out 4 times in the morning for almost an hour each time and then went out again at 4pm and didn’t come back until 9:30pm.  This morning…it went about 5 times.  BUT, I have a wonderful husband who persuaded the powers that be to send an electrician.  It is fixed…for now anyway.