Month: May 2013

What it’s like to be pregnant in Thailand

So you want to know what it’s like to be pregnant in Thailand. Where do I begin? Let’s start with wanting to buy a cotton nightshirt to sleep in. They have cotton night shirts. Just none made to go over pregnant bellies. I could buy 3 of the teeny tiny […]

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A Word on Asian Bathrooms

I have concluded that either, Thais are immune to foot fungus of any kind, or they just consider it something normal to live with. This is the only possible explanation for the eternally wet state of their bathroom floors. You see, you don’t wear shoes in a Thai house. But […]

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On Weathering Storms

The lights flicker for a second while I’m in the shower, and I quickly duck my head under the water again in case they go out completely. Our water comes from a well here, and is pumped into the house. No electricity = no pump = no water. It’s almost […]

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Making Home

It’s sinking in now, that this is home. Aaron is here at last, and now we go about having this baby and making a home here, along with all the work we need to be doing. It’s not really home yet though. Not like you might imagine. It’s a house […]

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