Orange eats table food (no baby food)...traditional Ethiopian food (mostly vegetarian), bananas, eggs, and some Italian food. But mostly traditional ET food. So we have frozen 20 sheets of Injera, ET Lentils, and an ET Cabbage dish so far. Doro Wat (with faux chicken) will be the next (and last) dish that we will have time to make before travel (this Friday!). We LOVE Ethiopian food so we are really looking forward to having this as a more regular part of our menu at home. When Orange comes home we will give her at least 1 Ethiopian meal per day, then introduce new foods and reduce it to a few times per week, then will go to more of a 1 ET dish per week. Since we also love Japanese, Mexican, Italian, Indian, Vietnamese, Chinese, and French food as well. It will be fun to see what she likes over time. Jon is the main cook of our house, but that will change because I will not be working (tomorrow is my last day at work!) so I am really looking forward to cooking at home (if the girls let me, haha). But I think I will still very much so look forward to a good order in of some local faves. If anyone has a recommendation for cook books that you couldn't live without then please let me know. I'm going domestic! :)
And guess what?! In one week, she will be with us! In our arms! I will know her voice, her face, and begin to learn about her personality. We are so excited and ready to go get her.
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I am so happy to think about her being in your arms in one week!!! Such a blessing.
Amy
Love Love Love that you are soo close...and a little jealous of your last day of work :) I have no doubt you will embrace your new role and be a Domestic Diva!
That is awesome that you will be able to be at home now!!! I love our work because I am always at home with the kids...and do work from home. It is a challenge, but much much much more reward!!!!! SOOOOO EXCITED for your trip-soon !!!!! She will be in your arms....well, she may have to get used to you first, but it won't be long!!!! :)
I am so so impressed with the Ethiopian cuisine you are preparing. I wish we knew more about cooking ET food. When you get her home you'll report on how she likes your cooking and which dishes are her favorite etc. I hope! Amanda
I can't believe how quickly the day is coming! So excited for you! And care to share you recipes? Do you buy your injera or make it? I have been promising Ash that I will attempt to make ET food again. I have not had much success. How long can you freeze injera?
Theresa, I am very impressed that you are able to make all these things. Let us all know if you find your favorite ET cookbook. You are getting so close!
We like Eating Well: Healthy in a Hurry cookbook. Where did you get all your Ethiopian recipes?
Wow...you are traveling so very soon...how exciting!!! I love that you have all these food prepared. We havne't gone to an ET restaurant yet, but we're excited to go to celebrate our referral (whenever we get one)...I hope we all love it like you do. Great that you'll be home too - are you taking maternity leave? I plan to...how long are you planning to take off? I was thinking between 2-4 months...not sure yet.
Oh, yum. We are working on our ET cooking skills. Can't believe you're so close - hooray!
YUM!
We are blessed to have a couple of great Ethiopian restaraunts nearby and their prices are so reasonable, take out is probably cheaper than making it from scratch. I'm thinking of asking the owner of one of the restaurants if she'd let me spend a day with her in the kitchen sometime--I think that would just be so much fun!
So excited you are so close, and hopeful that you'll get a minute to peek at our girl!
xoxoxo
Can't believe how close you are to finally meeting your beautiful little girl! So excited for you guys!!
PS: We absolutely love www.allrecipes.com =)
If you'd like to check in on our little guy feel free to email me at heatherlou02@yahoo.com
Oh my goodness...I am so excited for you!!! This is the week you leave to meet your sweet orange:) What a great idea to make some food a head of time. Can't wait to hear about your trip and see pictures of you all together!!
I am so happy that you get to stop working and be at home with them. I am so excited for you!!!!
I am loving following you on this stage of your journey!
awesome! wow...domestic mama! I like it! it's a transition, like any other change of course, but you'll love it!
do you know if shiro freezes?
hey theresa! so happy to see you'll have your O in your arms in less than a week! are you on facebook?
This picture makes my stomach growl! I can't wait to hear about your trip. Take lots of pictures, you can't have too many. Let me know if you get room 101 it has the most amazing (though mostly broken) "shower room". Are you quitting work for maternity leave or indefinitely?
Yay! You are set!! Congratulations on being so close!
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