Crock Pot Update and Other Rants

I didn't let it beat me! After three failed attempts at cooking a crock pot meal (1st fail - forgot to plug in, 2nd fail - forgot to turn on, 3rd fail - plug only halfway in socket), I finally made a meal! Last Friday I got it right and my boys got to enjoy a pot roast!

Darling Daughter and I went on a Girl Scout retreat, so I left the roast for the guys to eat when they got home Friday night. The retreat was fun. The girls were great, though what they most wanted to do was play/hike outside. That's good, but it was just so COLD outside! I am not a cold weather person. Plus, I didn't take any Diet Coke (wanted to be a good example), and boy - did I regret that! I was dragging!

As for my other rant - OK, here it is. You know I love books. I love to read. But, books are expensive. I try to check them out at the library, but some just aren't available there. What irritates me - are some of the series books. Now, I like series books to a point. I read some of Beverly Lewis's Amish series books, but eventually I tired of them and quit. I read some of a series that took place on the wild frontier - but more and more books just kept coming and I tired of it. But, those series don't "bother me". What "bothers me" are series like the Left Behind series and the Kingdom Series - they seem to me to not have enough "content" in them, to be too short, not have enough significant events, etc. To be blunt, it seems to me that they write them to pull you in and make you buy more. For them to make more money, and sell more books.

I think 3 books in a series is a good amount. And authors should write each book as a stand alone - with content, events, and substance that warrant the consumer spending their money on it. Don't string me along! Don't make me HAVE to buy the next book to find out what happened. OK to buy the next book to continue a journey - but don't leave a cliffhanger!

That's my 2 cents worth on the subject. Do you have any thoughts? Agree or Disagree? What's your favorite series? Any you disliked?

One of my favorites is the Spa Girls Series by Kristen Billerbeck. It is 3 books, each written from the POV of a different girl. Loved it!

What is He tryting to teach me?

About a month ago in this post I told you how I have messed up the last two "Crock Pot Stew" (as my kids call it). Well, the third time's a charm right?
Well, with most people - yes.
But, as with most nights that daughter and I have girl scouts - I started a "crock pot stew" before going to work. This time, I triple checked to make sure I had plugged it in and turned it on. When I left, the pot was warm - all was good. BUT, I must have pulled on the pot during one of my checks, because when HWH arrived home that night, expecting to smell the glorious aroma of my $20 pot roast and veggies, again, he was disappointed. The plug was halfway out of the socket, and so the two boys ate frozen waffles for dinner, and HWH and I ate spaghetti at about 9:45, after I got home and whipped it up.
This morning when eldest child was eating breakfast he made the comment "Mom, I think God's sending you a message not to make crock pot stew anymore."
My reply "Well He certainly is trying to teach me something. Not sure that it's to not make it anymore, I'll have to think about that".
So, what is it? What is the "lesson"? I thought on my drive to work.
To slow down? To get up earlier? To quit being a girl scout leader? To let HWH make their dinner? To not make crock-pot stew ever again?
I'm so confused . . . . . .