If you pay a tuktuk $3 to deliver your custom made furniture to your newly decorated office…
If this “river” was to the top of those barriers just 4 months ago…and is now a sewage drainage…
If you are out for your morning run and run into a “Dragon Dance” at a hotel entrance…
If you think it’s OK to wear a superhero costume everywhere and anywhere…
If going to a birthday party includes one of these…
If everyone piled into a truck like this is a normal sight…
If advertised prices on yummy fruit leave your lips puckered…
If date nights with your 4 year old entail going to “his favorite bar”…
If your street corner has about 20 moto taxis/tuktuks/peditaxis waiting to give you a ride…
If your friends can clean bones like the plate on the top…
If soccer practice is on a basketball court…
If really cool birthday parties include being at a outdoor restaurant with dragon tails for EVERY kid…
If a family outing includes mom running up 30 flights of stairs and at the finish line “My Heart will Go On” and “Cherish the Night Together” are playing…
You can run with all of your boys…on the street…and be OK…
If you chase birds down the sidewalk as an outing…
If the pedicure lady will come to your house and do a FAB mani/pedi for $10…(free for Iron Man)
If smelling your brother’s stinky feet is a fun past time…(bwah ha ha!!!)
If your 4 year old is asking for Khmer, Chinese and French lessons…
If your 4 year old sits on your lap and drives…
If your aching back is treated by acupuncture and cupping and some strange cream with a little Chinese lady giving you about 75 pills for you to take over the next 3 days…and you do it…and you don’t know why…(tis true)
If you have 2 kitchens…one outside and one inside for the babies to play in…
If you or one of your family members takes a photo with this 2 finger sign…(I have no idea why EVERYONE here does this…)
If you can get your eyebrows threaded and your babies can play on a moto…in the salon…while you do…
If your son can get mad at you and walk away and pout for 10 minutes and you don’t need to freak out that he is not 2 paces next to you…
If a grilled cheese sandwich feels like a gourmet meal…
If you order a cake for your husband’s birthday and you get this…
If your favorite little spot includes a yummy “Latin Quarter”…
If you find dead lizards in your washing machine…
If seaweed is in your pantry…and doesn’t spoil because you eat it all of the time…
If it takes filling out 25 forms for you to leave the country with your family…(thankful for that travel agent who sent us all of the forms to fill out at home!!!)
If your classmates names are something like Amret or Minh or Yuka…
You are thrilled at the prospect of devouring the following foods:
Your boys fight over brooms and mops for play time…
This is how you get to work…
You ride around in a tuktuk…period…(or nap)
You can brighten someone’s day for less than $20…
You can buy a round of top shelf drinks at a top shelf place for $20…
You are out on your morning run and a helicopter lands right in front of you…
…if everyone stops to see said helicopter…no matter what they are doing (training to be part of the gendarme royale)
if you can find nifty little treasures like this and make it what you want it to be…(sunglass holder…key keeper…phone tray)
If an afternoon of fun includes water balloons, a hose and a water spigot…
I love this little place we call home…
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