Samuel is going home to Virginia! He has been training in New Jersey. He's a Civil Affairs Specialist now, in the National Guard. Poor Grace has been home with little Grant without Sam for a bit. The unsung heroes of the nation, the stay-at-home spouses.
We're getting ready for our trip! We have a suitcase on the kitchen table for odds and ends, and food. The kids will be eating probably a meal a day,(eating out a meal a day) plus maybe an ice cream, or some candy from the candy store, maybe a chai tea, but I don't have much interest in Norwegian food. I don't eat cheese, or sea food, so ummm....I love their bread, but it doesn't love me. We'll buy eggs and half and half, and bread and cheese for the kids, but we're bringing our own coffee to make in the apartment we're staying in. I'm also bringing things like pepperoni, ready cooked bacon, some ramen noodles and instant oats, and almonds and cashews, as well as some Quest bars.
In the suitcase, two things Jon ordered on Amazon, which arrived after his departure, minimalist shoes and an S.D. card, as well as his swim trunks. My lovely Walmart sneakers are in there, too.
I also ordered this fanny pack, I'm going full-nerd. No offense, but even in the eighties and nineties, I wouldn't be caught dead with one of these. But now, according to my kids, they are "in". Charlotte Claire and Sonja K. have Adidas ones, Evelyn has a Calvin Klein, and Emily has a sensible gray one, like the one I ordered. Abigail ordered one too, it has pineapples on it, which is typical for her. It just seems so practical to travel with! Passport, credit card, cash, phone, all within reach, no rummaging! I'm sure with that on, and those sneakers, I'll look hilarious, but who cares?
See all those fanny packs?
So my days with Camille have been just golden. She is a sweet girl, and has just blossomed with me. There's something about not having the siblings there to influence behavior, she doesn't have to try to act older or different. We watched a movie together last night, and yesterday we went in the pool, and puttered around here kind of packing, kind of just relaxing. We stopped at the store so I could get heavy cream for that Keto pie like the one I made last week, but it was $8.19 a quart in the small store in town, so nope. I did get some mozzarella cheese though, to make Keto pizza for dinner. (The fathead pizza recipe, tweaked:
3/4 cup almond flour with a bit of garlic and onion powders, salt and pepper, and some crushed red pepper
1 and 1/2 cups mozzarella AND cheddar cheese, shredded...mostly mozzarella.
a hunk or a few spoonfuls of cream cheese
melt it for thirty second intervals, stirring between, until just melted together
add one egg. Mix it up.
I divided it into two pieces, and rolled each piece out between parchment. Drag each dough onto a baking sheet, remove top parchment, bake at 400 for 7 or eight minutes.
spoon some olive oil on top, spread around, put parchment on top of olive oil, flip it over, remove top parchment which used to be bottom parchment, and top with sauce, cheese, bacon, peppers and onions, pepperoni, or whatever, and put back into oven until melty and crispy.)
It was really yummy, it was the first meal of the day for me, and I loved it.
Ah well, things to do today...so bye for now.
6 comments:
Hi Della,.........Tuesday will be here before you know it! Half the fun of the holiday is looking forward to it and packing and getting ready for it. The Keto Pie sounds yummy and so does the pizza. I have a recipe for pizza crust made with cauliflower and all sorts of things, but I haven’t made it yet.....soon!! I have made cauliflower cheese sticks though and they were delicious! All that cheese in Norway is sooooooo delicious, but soooooooooo full of fat if you are watching that in your diet. The European bread is to die for and I’ve heard that people with gluten allergies can eat some of the breads in Europe..........the flours are not GMO like in North America.........I was in Italy for 4 days before a cruise about 12 years ago and I ate everything and didn’t get a belly ache once. I did on the ship though 😫 but who knows where their ingredients came from. It is lovely you have had some time to spend with Camille on her own. Bet there hasn’t been that forever? BTW I don’t think your runners are nerdy either.........speaking of nerdy.........years ago we were in Hawaii with my daughter and family and I didn’t bring any runners and we were hiking somewhere so I put on some Sox with my Crocks, and my granddaughter who was 13. almost had a fit! “ Mum Nana is wearing Sox and Crocks!!!” You would have thought I’d showed up naked or something 🤣🤣 Anyway Della....have fun with your baby girl and enjoy your packing.
Marilyn from Canada
I'm wearing 'our' dress today! Except I think you got the short version - mine is a long 'maxi' style to my ankles. Slits up the side for movement.
And funny... (I'm just shaking my head) that 1) the fanny pack? Last year on a cross country trip with my youngest daughter, I didn't want to wear one because my head was stuck in the 1989 me wearing one (with my neon green shorts and L.A. Gear High Top tennis shoes). She said they were VERY 'in' and cool for traveling right now. I started to look around and yep... multi-colored, fabric, crocheted, rainbow, black, everyone traveling had them. 2) I LITERALLY JUST MADE fathead dough. I made a double batch, stuffed it with spinach, ricotta and Parmesan. Grabbed 2 in a bowl and came here to log in on computer and eat my 'late lunch'.
I told you we connect on many levels. (I have photos of them on my Instagram and Twitter... I haven't updated my website with todays photos yet but other Fathead Dough items are on there like my 'everything bagels', hotdog and hamburger buns...).
Marilyn, I had no problem with bread in Ireland, bread and beer, two things I never consume in real life. But the bread in Norway doesn't seem to agree with me, makes my intestines hurt in the same place as when I ate the bread that Jonathan and I made. But Margaret lived there for a year and said the gluten free bread is really good...their bread comes in real, fresh baked-looking loaves that you cut in the machine. Sam says there's a Lidl near him in Virginia that has that too. I am laughing about the socks and crocks, because I will be wearing socks and Birkenstocks on the plane. And going through security. No barefeet on the airport floor, when they so rudely make me take off my shoes...I detest going through those lines, ugh.
Okay, Same Dress Friend, that's very interesting! See, we were cool before our kids were! And ha, I was Keto before Keto was cool, too. I didn't stick with it, but am back to it now. That fathead dough, so good! We make cheese-it like crackers with it, on a cold winter's day, the kids gobble them up when they come out of the oven, add a tiny bit of hot sauce too.
I’ve seen people go barefoot into the toilets on the plane!!!! Eeeeewwwwww!! 😳 So revolting isn’t it?
Marilyn from Canada ......... again.........🙄
Hi Della! I've been reading your blog for a while now and I love it! I live in truro nova Scotia canada. Your blog is the first one I look on each morning when I have my coffee🍵 I look forward to each post😊
Hi Shellie! Thank you, you should write a blog too, please! I'd love to know what life is like in Nova Scotia!
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