Our Crazy Cook for February/March is Rhonda from Georgia.

My husband and I began freezer cooking while I was pregnant with our son, figuring that it would be much easier to reheat already prepared dishes than cooking from scratch every evening while dealing with a newborn. (We were right!!) I had a terrible pregnancy--I was sick for the entire 9 months! Towards the end, though, it had gotten some better, so I thought I would be able to stomach some heavy duty cooking. Our first cooking day occurred when I was about 8 months along. We had started with a triple batch of a yummy black-eyed pea and sausage soup, figuring that it would have plenty of time to cook and then cool while we worked on everything else. We browned ground beef, shredded chicken, and whipped up casseroles, congratulating ourselves on how smart we were... Finally, about 9pm, we were ready to bag up our soup in heavy duty freezer bags. We WERE working in the vicinity of the sink, but it was taking both of us to fill each bag, and the way our sink is situated, we couldn't both be right over it at the same time (especially with me being VERY pregnant!)... We were down to the last of the soup, and were both tired and ready to call it a day. My husband was holding the bag, and I was pouring in the soup, and as he "zipped" it closed, soup shot out from the side of the bag, covering him, me, and most of our kitchen floor (a VERY small amount actually landed in the sink)!!! Turns out there was a slit in the side of the bag...you can be sure that we check our bags very carefully now, BEFORE we pour anything in them! My wonderful husband scrubbed the kitchen floor that night while I got a shower... Our son is now 9 months old, and he loves being in the kitchen as much as we do. We haven't done a full day of cooking since he was born, but he enjoys playing in his high chair and offering verbal encouragement while we do mini-cooking sessions in the evenings. However, we do keep him far away from where we're bagging our results!!