Other Mondays

I have a love/hate relationship with Mondays. Some Mondays I wake up depressed and overwhelmed by the week stretching out before me. Those are the Mondays where I have had a busy weekend away from home, where I procrastinated with my ironing, my schoolwork and my household chores. My house is a disaster, my kids cranky and my to do list endless. 

But then there are the other type of Mondays. Those like today, where I did an entire weeks worth of ironing last night while watching Gossip Girl online (yay! Carl actually has wrinkle-free work clothes for the first time in WEEKS!). On days like today I have a clean house (thanks, Mom!) our laundry is almost completely caught up, I have one child who is getting the hang of potty training, my schoolwork in almost completely caught up and dinner is easy, delicious and already started at 11:00 a.m. I love Mondays like this. 

We are having yummy shredded mexican chicken (recipe below), with this easy rice and this salad. Yum!

Shredded Pork:*

6-7 pounds pork tenderloin

sauce:

3 (8 oz.) cans tomato sauce

2 (8 oz.) cans el pato sauce (in the yellow can)

2 cups brown sugar

1 cup water

Mix together sauce ingredients and pour over pork. Let cook in crockpot 8-9 hours. That's it!

I actually used frozen, boneless, skinless chicken breasts and thighs instead. This recipe is borrowed from one I found on Elizabeth Bryant's blog The Dish on Delish. However, I found it through NieNie Dialogues and can't seem to link directly to it, hence the writing out of the recipe.