Road trip …with a baby

Good morning smiles!

Today is the day!  We are starting our six-week journey with a long 7 hour (ok, so it’s long with a baby!) road trip, to stay for the weekend at my grandparent’s in WI before flying out from Chicago on Tuesday.

Our 6am leaving goal become more like 10… BUT we got everything packed in an organized manner and the house clean & tidy and our entire fridge and freezer empty!

Some of the odds and ends of food came with us in the car, where I invented Cheesy Nachos on the Go.  Necessity is the mother of invention, they say.

Snacks in the Car

Ingredients:

Half a bag of nachos

Whatever is left of your block of cheese

Put the slices of cheese on the chips (as if they were crackers) and Viola!  You have nachos on-the-go!

The second snack is one that I put together for the flight really.  {My biggest fear is that they won’t feed this nursing mother enough!}  I had to sample a bag today of this delicious snack mix:

It’s all very approximate and you can suit it to your taste {but no, ALL chocolate chips is not allowed}!

Ingredients:

1/4 c. raisins

1/4 c. chocolate chips

1/3 c. peanuts or other nuts

1/2 – 1 c. Cheerios

Mix together for one snack bag of Happiness! 😀

Meet in the Middle

I was pregnant at THE SAME TIME as my friend, Mattie, from Wisconsin, we had our babies on THE SAME DAY, and of course, happened to be traveling on THE SAME DAY!  What are the chances that we would be going their way and they would be coming our way… on the same day?!  What else could we do but meet in the middle!

We got to meet each other’s babies for the first time and {ahem!} may or may not have planned an arranged marriage!  Haha!  At the very least, they must be great friends, Ole and Leia – after all they were born on the same day! 😉

As for the rest of the trip… We are about an hour from Grandma and Grandpa’s… I will spare you the details of the non-tranquil last two hours {no, I have no tips or tricks, sometimes nothing works}, and leave you with a snapshot of the time all parents of little ones wait for – when baby falls asleep!