Welcome to my blog!

So I started a blog! Super excited to share my family cooking experiences and at last have a record of what I make! Before I get into it, here's some background info:

1. What we eat. As a general rule, I incorporate healthy foods into our meals. We try to eat a lot of lean proteins, whole grains and fruits and veggies. DISCLAIMER: Not everyone in the family is a good eater on all of these fronts. My husband won't eat cooked vegetables (and only a handful of raw ones), My son will eat any kind of fruit, but refuses to eat most vegetables (I find the daycare-incorporated "no thank you bite to be helpful here), and my daughter will clean her entire plate one night, and not touch a bite the next.

2. I have no time. I'm a working mother of two small children (3.5 and almost 2). Dinner time can be crazy at our house. As soon as we walk in the door (around 5:00) everyone is starving, usually whining and ready to eat! Pre-kids, my husband and I never ate dinner before 7:30, and I had time when I got home to make more complex dinners. Now...not so much. But I do the best I can to get a great, healthy dinner on the table by 6 (some days are better than others).

3. I have even less time. My husband travels for work...a lot. This makes cooking even harder to fit in and even more of a chore. A lot of nights, I'm just cooking for myself and two kids who would be thrilled with Kraft Mac and Cheese of frozen chicken nuggets any day of the week. For myself?? A bowl of cereal or a few servings of Stove Top stuffing (I have some carb-weaknesses) would be more than fine. While I have resorted to this on more than one occasion, the goal is to make real food, let's say...90% of the time (everyone needs a night off, right?)

What I promise to deliver:
1. Pictures. They're the key to any good blog, especially with food! I'm not the best picture-taker, but you'll get plenty of blurry/bad lighting shots.

2. Frequency. I hope to blog at least twice a week. Perhaps I should make myself an "allowed glass of wine while blogging" rule?? This might produce more frequent posts.

3. Good and bad. I want to catalog what works and what doesn't. No sense in only writing down the good stuff, when we can all learn from my mistakes.

Now for the food...but not tonight. bedtime. I have a pumpkin, sausage, black bean soup that I dreamed up planned for later this week. Probably a great place to start!