Lets Go Kiddo

The Kiddo is getting older and one of the nice things with that is that she is a little bit more independent and that’s better for everyone.   She’s washing herself up after meals, grabbing or putting things away as she wants or needs them, and dressing and changing herself during the day as needed (in and out of swimsuits, jammies, etc).   So, today I was getting the kitchen prepped so I could do meal prep.  Someone (not naming any names) decided that she wanted to help.  By help, it was asking a million questions.  That’s cool, though, because I’m still cooking and prepping and she can be included and learn and ask and see and foster a desire or even just a day to day understanding of kitchen safety, foods, flavors, and a basic understanding of meal prep and meal time.  Might be an important skill for her one day with a place of her own or family of her own one day.  It’s to the point, now, that she is helping with pinches of salt, pepper, sugar, an...

The sense of loneliness and emptiness is the hardest for me.   I mean, it’s really humbling to move to a place like Bangkok with no working grasp of the language or customs and no “fixer” or guide to help teach us.   Covid is part of that, since we can talk to the folks that moved here before us and before Covid and hear about how they had a twice weekly guide available to them that would take them into the city and translate and help them learn and see places.   Those services were stopped with Covid and not coming back any time soon.   So, it is a challenge.   I’m sure someone reading this will know about Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker’s “trilogy of six books” (I miss the sense of humor, rest in peace, good sir) and if not, use your local library and check it out.  The first three, at least, are worth the read.  But, in the books, there is a character named Zaphod Beeblebrox is punished by being put into the Infinite Vortex (I’m working off memory ...

Working on setting this up and making it more to our liking and style.  I wanted to get something up, just so we have a placeholder and a little welcome to anyone coming over and wondering if this is really A, J, or the Kiddo. Also, it gives me a chance to try putting some media up as well.  Pics AND Videos???  Can it really be???? Cheers fro now and we'll be back to write more later.  Have a great day and thanks for poking us here to see that we are all still ok.