- make pizza sauce from scratch
- buy (and actually use) fresh herbs from the grocery store
- spend several hundred dollars a month on amazon.com
- patiently wait 2-3 weeks for my Amazon order to arrive
- have a stock pile of breakfast cereal just in case there in an emergency
- buy meat from the butcher (IN SPANISH)
- buy fruit by the kilo
- pay the bag boy to walk my groceries home for me
- Sit through 3 hours of church I don't understand
- beg my English speaking friends to go to lunch with me
- wear shoes all the time (in the states I would rather be shoeless)
- have clean sheets twice a week
- hand wash dishes (sometimes it is just easier)
- check facebook 15 times a day (okay sometimes I did that before moving here)
- talk to the baby first in English then in Spanish (because he won't point and laugh)
- invite the missionaries over once a week
- smile when I hear my kids speaking Spanish
- stand in the grocery store and convert currency in my head
- look out my window when I hear clapping (there might be someone at the door)
- usually have about 3 dozen eggs in my fridge (they come in packs of 30 or 60)
- buy eggs warm off the shelf
- buy milk in one liter bags that then are frozen and stored; we defrost 4 liters at a time 1 whole liter for Eli and 2 skims and a whole for everyone who is not Eli
- try to teach people how to say my kids' names (for some reason Eli is the hardest one)
- schedule all of my (and my kids) Dr. appointments around the few weeks I will be in the states
- use our awesome bbq at least once a weekend
- eat coconut cookies; because they are good!
- drink yogurt, because there is no other kind
- use a prepaid phone plan because it is cheaper
- force my kids to try junk food because we are in a new place and we try new things
- hide my underwear so the maid will not wash them when she is here
- buy coke in returnable bottles
- constantly check to make sure the baby is not playing with roach traps
- or roaches --- yes, gross, I know
I'm sure there will be many more.
I guess things could be worse I could be living in Ouagadougou! hehehehehe---Yes Sheryl, I do think I am funny!
