My favourite way to peek into my past is currently using
this blog, so I’m motivated to jot down things how they are now (in these few months) before this “normal”
travels into the past as well.
The most fun
Rockets, playing the mud, building things and using their
torches (flashlights) are how the kids love filling their afternoons and
evenings. During hot days they don’t get to play outside much until it starts
getting dark. Recently it’s been dinner early then out to play until bath time.
Morning routine
What was previously reserved for holidays is currently our
daily routine! Pre-kids, and pre-moving to SR tuk tuk rides were for special occasions,
and travelling alongside the river in SR with all its greenery was only ever
done when we were having a break from the capital city. Sitting together,
without the distraction of housework and toys sometimes ends up being the time
the kids start asking me questions, or telling me things. Only a few months
left and this will end!
And then we arrive at preschool. I often run into other
parents, many from families who are also have one Khmer parent and one expat
parent. Sometimes the parents are people were friends with before we all
started at preschool, others I just started getting to know at drop off and
pick up after hearing our kids talk about their kids at home. One family we
actually met the first time in a supermarket. Another is a friend’s nanny’s other
client from a couple of years ago. Other than Khmer the nationalities include
but not limited too- Canadian, English , Australian, Irish, Philipino , Austrian
and German. Hoping we can stay in
contact with some families when we finish up at preschool.
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| I still want to get a full size gas oven one day- but a toaster oven does the job for now. |
A rush of new things
The size of our last house moved deceived me. It looked
small, only a few kilometres away but we are still in transition. A rush of new
things reminded me the other weekend.
First (proper) time to have friends over was so refreshing!
We used to have weekly play dates at our old house, so it feels great to start
having people over again. I don’t like to have people over until I’m settled in.....but
I don’t feel settled in until I’ve had people over. One of the many moving
house stresses.
A roof over our front door/outside steps- just in time for
rainy season! Soeun installed a light too, we have been eating outside and then
cleaning up in the dark.
Bible Reading
After clearing out the Revelation sermons from my phone
there was space for ones on the book of Isaiah. To help me I’ve also got Kirk
Patston’s Surprising Salvation, and Howard Pesketts’s Bible study book.
Weekly Psalm reading is in action at the moment! On Sunday
the Khmer congregation read it chorally. At home we read bits of it in both
languages throughout the week, here and there as we have time and concentration.
Sunday just gone we read Psalm 12 at church, so this week at home we are
reading Psalm 13. The kids can read numbers and some letters so they like
trying to find it in the Bible.
