• Home
  • About Me
    • Advertise/PR
  • Freezer to Slow Cooker Meal Plan
    • Cart
    • Checkout
  • Instant Pot & Slow Cooker Recipes
    • Crockpot Freezer Meals to Make Life Simpler & More Delicious
    • Instant Pot Recipes
    • Ground Beef Recipes
    • Beef Recipes
    • Chicken Recipes
    • Pork Recipes
    • Soup Recipes
    • Low Carb Recipes
  • Family
    • Homemaking
    • Get Healthy & Lose Weight
    • Making & Saving Money
  •  

Sidetracked Sarah

Helping Busy Moms Take Back Their Lives!

You Are Here: Home » The Wife & Mother » Do You Ever Let Your Bad Day Take Over?

Do You Ever Let Your Bad Day Take Over?

By Sarah Leave a Comment

Pin
Share
Tweet
Yum
0 Shares

Do You Ever Let Your Bad Day Take Over?  - SidetrackedSarah.com

 

Have you ever just had one of those days?  You know the kind.  Everything you touch or do goes wrong.  The kids are misbehaving and you keep trying to accomplish something but nothing works. Oh and then there’s the one kid who must not have slept very well, because he or she (or both of them) keep crying.  All. Day. Long.  This was me, yesterday.

 

In fact, there’s a little more to my story.  A week and a half ago, I spent 3 hours preparing and assembling a month’s worth of crockpot freezer meals.  I had sent my girls out to the refrigerator’s freezer in our extra building to store them, as my freezer in the house was getting really full.  The next day, my husband found a bag of rotting food, sitting right in front of the refrigerator.  I had also sent some other food out there, in a bag.  Without looking at the bag for myself, I assumed that the rotting food was the overflow items that had been in the bag.  While I wasn’t thrilled about it, a lot of the food in that bag was old and I really wasn’t going to miss it too badly.  The thought never crossed my mind that it could be our meals!

 

Fast forward to today.  I went out to pick our day’s dinner.  I was shocked to see that we were missing 5 or 6 of our meals that I had prepared.  Beef Tips and Gravy was in there.  In fact, I had doubled that recipe.  It was my husband’s favorites and had one of the most expensive cuts of meat, too.  I was livid to think that my hard work had gone to such total waste, not to mention all the money in food that was wasted.  I came inside complaining to “Not Me” about how they wasted my food and hard work and I can’t believe that they left it out to rot.  I mean, why in the world would someone set down a bag in front of the freezer without putting it inside?

 

In addition to the rotting food discovery, I had a few other things happen throughout the day.

 

  1. I got an email that something I sold for $200 was not actually sold like I thought it was, so I’d be without that money.
  2. When I went to the store, I scratched my own van with my shopping cart.  Not just a little knick.  A long, scrape the paint off kind of scratch.
  3. I found moths in my pantry.
  4. I was reminded about an appointment in a town 2 hours away, that was happening the next day and I was not prepared to go.
  5. I burned the baby with a hot plate.  (thankfully it wasn’t that bad, but at first I wasn’t sure)
  6. Then there was the sad 5 and 3 year olds who kept throwing fits and crying and fighting all day long.  Literally.  All Day.
  7. The dog is sick and needs to go to the vet and I’m worried he’s not going to make it

 

I’m not telling you all of this to make you feel sorry for me.  I just wanted to point out that some days are downright bad.  Sometimes, it’s how we respond to these struggles that helps us to set the tone of the rest of our day.

 

Do you yell?  (I did)

 

Did it help?  (Nope)

 

Do you pray?  (I did)

 

Did it help?  (YES!)

 

Do you try to focus on the positive?  (It can be hard, can’t it?)

 

Do you quote Scripture?  (It sure helps you focus on the positive!)

 

Sometimes, you just have to sit back, take a deep breath, grab a treat or a Sonic drink, take a nap…..  Do something to get your mind going in a different direction.  After all……

 

For every minute you are frustrated or angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness! (photo credit)

We don’t want to miss out on those happy moments!  Your kids are only this age once!  You are able to shape the out come of your day in the way you respond.  No, that doesn’t mean that nothing bad will ever happen, but sometimes something unexpected happens…….

 

P.S.  When my husband came home, we found the food in the deep freezer.  I had told the kids to put it in the other one and it didn’t even dawn on me to check in the deep freeze.  So, the one thing that started my day bad, ended up to not be a bad thing at all.  Sometimes, all we need is a little perspective!  

Pin
Share
Tweet
Yum
0 Shares
Freezer to Slow Cooker Week 4 Printable AVAILABLE NOW!
The 52 Week Organized Home Challenge

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Get Your Freezer to Slow Cooker 1 Week Menu - FREE!



Have You Met Sarah?

Sidetracked Sarah Welcome

subscription-ad

The Best Slow Cooker Chicken Thighs Recipe

Facebook

Sidetracked Sarah

Testimonials

  • Amorette DavisUser of the Free Freezer to Slow Cooker One Week Menu

    Thank you so much! As a special needs mommy these recipes have helped us so much.   I often am very busy with being a nurse for our child that I don't have time for making sure we get meals.  This allows me to do all my prep on the weekends, while my husband is home to help, and to cook during the week.  So grateful!

  • Linda SearsOwner of Freezer to Slow Cooker Menus

    Sarah’s Freezer to Slow Cooker ebooks have been a fantastic addition to my meal plans.  They make meal planning easy and my family happy. I love the way each recipe is laid out, with a shopping list and ingredient prep list, along with cooking instructions. Sarah’s done all the hard work for me!  The recipes have used have all been delicious and easily adaptable to my family’s taste and the number of people I’m serving.

  • FranOwner of Freezer to Slow Cooker Ebooks
     I purchased all of your freezer to slow cooker ebooks a month or so ago and I'm in love with this way of cooking.  I now have taken all 10 weeks of recipes and written them of my menu planner and then I repeated the 10 weeks and will continue to do so throughout the year.  My family of 5 adults and 1 child enjoy the meals that you have planned and I have cooked and I'm excited that the next time when that meal comes due up in the rotation I won't have to purchase anything but just pull it from the freezer.  Thank you so much
           A Happy Slow Cooker User
  • rayzn2angelsfrom Freezer to Slow Cooker Series

    This makes my life so much easier. I'm a busy work at home/stay at home mom, wife, business woman and I feel like dinner is always the thing I just never get time to do. We have done like 15 of the crockpot recipes from Sarah and they are all very yummy. They get a thumbs up from my husband and kids every time. And there is always enough for my husband to take the left overs at least 2x per recipe. I have a family of 5, 2 adults, 21, 13, 16. So it makes plenty. Thank you Sarah.

  • Dawn S.Buyer of Freezer to Slow Cooker Ebook Series
    I am a 59-year-old wife and mother of two grown children.  I love your idea of fixing a lot of meals ahead of time and then pulling one out, put it in the crockpot, and you have dinner when you get home.  I hate feeling rushed when I cook so Monday - Friday I use those crockpot meals and make enough that we have lunch the next day.  I take Sunday afternoon, fix up what I need for the week (I don't have a lot of freezer space so I do a week's worth at a time) and I'm done with it!  Saturdays I like to try new recipes from some of my cookbooks which I am finding I can freeze as well!  So you have shown me a whole new way to organize my time and still put a healthy meal on the table.  Thanks so much and I look forward to future blogs.

Newsletter Subscription

  • Home
  • About
  • Account
  • Freezer to Slow Cooker
  • Shop

Copyright © 2025 Sidetracked Sarah

Save your cart?

x