Tag Archives: Expat

How’s This for Confidence!?

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I am very serious about being confident in God’s perfect plan for my life. Most of the time, I feel like I am just holding on for dear life because it comes at me so quickly. I guess that’s just part of the fun of “enjoying the ride”.

I wanted to share with you my bold leaps out of my comfort zone into something totally new where I believe God is calling me. I am so excited about these different opportunities because I know I will learn so much that will lead to great career path prospects down the road.

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Thai Cooking School Adventure

photos from nikon d3100

ready to cook
fresh fish at the market
making coconut milk
the meat of the coconut
pressing the coconut meat to get the cream and then the milk
we have the goods, now let’s go cook!

It’s always fun for us to have guests come visit, especially when they visit us in our new home in Bangkok. We now have the ability to share some of these unique cultural experiences with our friends and family. This Christmas, my in-laws came to visit us for two weeks and we had everyday planned out for them so they could experience as much of Thailand as they could possibly handle.

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Christmas In Bangkok: Sensory Overload

photos taken with Nikon D3100

St. Regis
St. regis
in front of the four seasons
four season lobby
killi says “hey! i’ve been here!”
outside of four seasons
the beginning of Christmas sensory overload- it only sang the first line of gangum style… kill me now!
along walk to the Earwin Shrine
look at that love
christmas “art” on skywalk from BTS chitlom
central world

Coming from the Bible belt, I have always seen a beautiful display of Christmas decorations with nativity scenes, angels with their trumpets, Christmas trees, stockings, Santa Claus and his eight tiny reindeer, and (most of the time) delightfully tacky Christmas light displays.  When I left the Bible belt for a predominantly Buddhist country right after Christmas, all I could think was “I might not have Christmas like this for the next four years…” and that was a hard pill to swallow.

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Killi Therapy Week 9 & 10: It’s Been A Total Blur

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I will be honest week 9 went by so fast I couldn’t tell you what happened. We were going to therapy and everything was normal and then we moved. Although the move was only a few sois over it still took a few days to prep and the entire weekend to unpack and organize. Killi during this move was a real trooper. To be honest, I thought he handled it quite well. The first night we were in our new place, he went to bed at 6pm and didn’t wake up until 6am. It was awesome. My biggest concern with this move was how it would effect his development, I was seriously worried that this would have set him back but it didn’t.

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Killi Therapy Week 8: If Toddler Ain’t Happy, Ain’t Nobody Happy!

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My family moved to South Carolina when I was four years old. As long as I can remember and could read, we had a sign hanging over the door that I would read to myself everyday that says “If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” The sign is still there and it makes me smile every time I leave the house. As I think about it now, I have to laugh because how it should read is “If toddler ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy!”

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More Crazy Signs of Thailand

This winner is on soi 53 off of Sukhumvit. I love how the sign is so visual. Just incase you aren’t sure what a dog looks like when they have “to go” and what it will look like when they are finished here is a picture to clear that up….

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Our Latest Adventure: Ayutthaya By Train

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Almost one year down, 3 more to go. With 2014 rapidly approaching, we realize we still have so much more to see and who knows if three years will be enough time. In trying to plan next year’s adventures with the Thai holidays and work schedules we realized we could go to Ayutthaya on a day trip during the weekend just to get out of the city and see something new.  We don’t have a car and rely solely on public transit.  My husband being the Clark Griswold he is… I mean adventurer that he is, decides we are taking the train!

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