A Healthy Start

Here I am!!! Between six dogs and three kids and the Captain in Brazil….my time is so limited. It doesn’t mean that I don’t think of you all every single day and I have tons to catch up on in blog world, but unfortunately I’m still flying. Just thought I’d take a moment to catch you up on where I’m at right now…

I have been given an interview for the job of cook/child worker in the same place I’m working now. The new nursery which is being built will be open in October and they are wanting to hire a cook who can have responsibility for the kitchen but also can work with the kids. My interview is Friday and I’m totally excited about it!!!

How cool to work with children which I ADORE and at the same time work with a passion of mine which is cooking and baking. Not to mention the challenge of making healthy and GOOD food! There are so many challenges to this job that I just love it!

Nurseries/Daycares in Norway are on tight budgets so there is first and foremost the challenge of a budget…eating healthy and good on a budget! I’ve got several ideas up my sleeve for this one and I’ll let you know after my interview, in case someone I know is going for the same job and reads my blog…hehehehe…but I’m totally psyched about this challenge!

I think as an overweight adult it’s important to teach children healthy eating habits from an early age. This way when they are older and face the temptations of unhealthy eating they will have something solid to stand on- a love of healthy food. It’s much worse if you raise a child the opposite way, giving them a love for everything unhealthy and then as the child grows up and realizes they have to take care of themselves and eat healthy they have to start learning at a later age to like things that aren’t junk food and let’s face it folks…junk food is an addiction. So if you begin down that path it’s a tough habit to break- even when you  know it’s not good for you…

I wish children in America had this chance to eat healthier but I think over there you have so much advertising aimed toward kids to entice them to eat junk food and you have a generation or two of family who want the junk food too and are more inclined to not serve their kids something if it means limiting their own intake of this product…this is where I think we have a slight advantage in Norway. While Norwegians enjoy their cakes and ice cream and hot dogs, generally people are healthier in their eating habits here so I think it would be easier to get the parents on board with healthier eating in daycares.

Oh I’m bubbling over with ideas for this job and I’m really excited to get in there and find out what my bosses have in mind with this position and share some of my ideas…they’ve tasted my cooking before but I was thinking I’d maybe make a little something….lunch pack or something to share with them….hey…it might be looked at as brown nosing a little…but if it gets me a permanent job, then I’m all for it! hahahaha….Seriously though, how can you hire a painter if you’ve never seen their work, or right to the point a cook, if you’ve never tasted their work? Now again, my bosses have tasted my food before but in an interview I’d assume it would be ok to let them try it again…based on the fact that we’re to keep our personal relationships out of the interview and be professional and I’d do that for any cook job, let them taste what I can do so they’d know what they are getting…

Cross your fingers and wish me luck ok? Tomorrow I’m off to the vet with Redman to get a health check to exclude any health issues which might be making him behave in a naughty way…then next week I’m taking Birdy to the vet for an ultrasound to see if we’re expecting puppies and then we head to Averøy for my niece’s confirmation and then back again. The following week I’m taking Redman to a behaviour specialist in Drammen to get an “expert” opinion of him…oh and Julia’s still home from school with a bad back…she is getting treatments at the chiropractor but looks like it will be another week at home and they will re-evaluate her next week if she can begin school again.

Oh my goodness, I’m exhausted after just writing all of that….I’ll be back as soon as I can….be well my friends and thanks for hanging in there with me…

Until next time……