Lets Go Kiddo

During our last trip to the NHL (Neilson Heys Library) this past weekend, J and Kiddo found a few books, but one book in particular was hot on Kiddo’s radar.  It’s called Growing up for Girls.   The other day, Kiddo and J were doing their Kiddo/Mumma time and they did some reading from the book.  A LOT of questions were asked.  A little bit of freaking out.   This book deals with things like puberty, the body, the changes that will come, and what that all means.  I can only imagine some of the uncomfortable questions and comments J needed to deal with, but she parented thru it.  Besides that, both J and I grew up in houses where those types of things weren’t talked about.  It was rude, or inappropriate, or blah blah.  We’d rather spend a few uncomfortable minutes explaining the body and it’s natural process of growing and changing than not.   Again, we’d rather give her trust and information than not.  I never had those convos,...

A few things have been going on in the last week or so since I’ve posted and I have some catching up to do.  Firstly, I’ve been away because I hurt my foot.  I stepped weird and twisted it along the arch and it’s been hurting.  It’s been getting better everyday since, but I’ve been taking it slow and staying home more, but that gets long and boring, so I’ve been reading more.   It happened Thursday night and after walking Kiddo to school I came home and put my feet up since it was hurting.  I spent most of the day icing and resting my foot and reading.  Over the weekend, I was with the ladies and I had my crown appointment on Sunday.  Monday was more rest and I finished the book I started Friday (Richard Russo’s The Risk Pool ) and took my time making dinner.  Tuesday I went to get a foot and leg massage and that helped a ton.  Really helped the muscles chill and relaxed the foot.  Today is Wednesday and I took Kiddo to school today....

Life keeps you on your toes, I can attest to that. Between the heat and life, there are a million balls in the air right now, on top of us moving in approx 50 days.  Time is starting to become a commodity that we are running out of faster than we want.   We are down to counting things again.  Trash bags, coffee filters, how many more water bottle coupons we have, even some of the dry goods… Should I get that 5kg bag of rice?  NO!  We won’t come close to using it.  We need red wine vinegar, but the options were a tiny bottle of some high end stuff (70ml for 759 baht - about $25) or a 1.5L bottle for 179 baht (about $5) and we need about 70ml, but for that price???  And the bigger bottle is just waste. My ADHD and OCD make me well suited to keeping these counts and keeping us as stocked as we need to be for the next 6/7ish weeks.  Also, as the planner and executer of meals, I am the one who needs to “make it work”.  That’s ok, because I h...

 South East Asia and the region is trapped in a heat wave right now and it’s been brutally hot.  Record breaking temps in the last week.  There is some good news in sight as rain is in the forecast for the next three days and temps are expected to go from 42/43C daily (107-112F) to a more livable and reasonable 36ishC (97F) and we are hearing that it could get as low as 33C.  We’re gonna be frickin’ freezing.  LOL Being Thai, or at least next door and adopted, we put on light and flowing clothing, grabbed the biggest water bottles we had and filled them with ice and water and we headed out to the Chatuchak Market.  It’s the largest market in BKK and with 1500 vendors, it is just WOW.  Something you need to see at least once. We had a game plan, however.  We got to the market early and browsed around.  Got some smoothies.  Kiddo got Tangmo (Watermelon), J got Saparot (Pineapple) and I went with Manaw (lime) and they were a delight....