I am mom to my 2 kids and dog and best friend and more to my husband. I work part time, but love hanging out with my family most. I love having a great recipe and the days that I'm organized enough to get it all together without a disaster! Right now I'm really into my slow cooker, especially on the days when I'm chauffering my kids everywhere around the dinner hour. I also love new salad recipes. I don't know, I guess I need to get some. Occasionally being able to cook meals that are low carb for my husband and at the same time yummy for everyone else. A few Christmas Eves ago I attempted to make a Pavlova for dessert. It all was going well until I followed the directions for the part of the recipe that said turn off the oven and leave in for a few hours to cool slowly...Well, when it came time to preheat the oven for my chicken wings, I forgot that the Pavlova was still in the oven! Luckily I wasn't too far away when I smelled something burning. I opened the oven and my poor Pavlova was on fire. I grabbed the fire extinguisher and put the fire out and took the blackened Pavlova out to cool on the deck outside. We didn't end up having Pavlova that year after all!