The dreaded question: What's for dinner?

At the end of the day, when Joe gets home from work, I cringe when I hear the dreaded question: what's for dinner?  Joe usually gets home around 8 pm.  By this time in the evening, I've dealt with various tantrums throughout the day, am covered in crusty kid stuff, am surrounded by a mess in every direction, and if I'm lucky, both kids have been bathed and are sleeping.  On my unlucky days, one of them is still fighting going to bed.  The last thing I want to do is cook dinner.  Liam's dinners are pretty simple.  I make him pasta or give him chicken with rice.  His stuff I can make easily.  Liam and Marlo eat dinner around 6.  They can't wait until Joe gets home. 

On my good days, I have dinner prepped when the kids are napping or I've got something in the slow cooker so dinner is already done when Joe gets home.  Full disclosure, these good days happen about once every two weeks.  Sad, I know.   Usually, I end up hating cooking and putting the minimal amount of effort into it.  Or I tell Joe he can have a bowl of cereal or pick up take-out.  And I really want to have a good dinner ready for Joe when he gets home.  I just need to set myself up for a bit more success.  I would love to get some slow cooker recipes.  So if any of my readers have one or two to share, please do!  We like to keep it healthy, but are not afraid to indulge.  We eat everything!

This is the happy face I want to make when my dear husband asks, "What's for dinner?"