Just Makes Me Smile

Just a few things that have made me smile the past 12 days:

*Boarding a plane and beginning this new adventure as a family of four!

*Audrey An lost her first tooth

*Abigail meeting some girls her age on Sunday

*Seeing a goat on a leash
*Canoe man

*Waking up to a rooster crowing each morning

*Buying lunch for 30,000VND

*Meeting new friends

*Having Julie keep my girls while I went apartment hunting

*Having Crissy go with me apartment hunting

*“Experiencing” the traffic

*Being thankful that our computer decided to not to completely “fry”...again

*Experiencing a different culture...new sights, new sounds, new smells, new everything!

*Listening to the girls perform their Christmas program for us in the hotel room

*Knowing my hubby is a happy man and doing what he loves

*Just LOVE knowing the fact that as family we're going to grow closer and experience things in a different way than back in the states
*Audrey An calling the goat a reindeer

*Watching my girls be creative with their time

*Seeing a “Ferrari” sticker on someone's motor bike

*Internet

*Rejoicing with David in his great test grade

*Eating Oreos

*Skype

*Vaccum packed laundry

*Signing a lease

*Ladies with high heels riding their motor bike...some even side saddle

*Fellowshipping on Sunday with like-minded people

*Reading

*Sunsets

*Hotel housekeeper pointing to David's picture and saying “You husband handsome” : )

*Hearing about some of the places we're going to visit

*Seeing hundreds of people sit on teeny tiny stools on the side of the road eating their lunch

*People giggling at us when they are trying to speak to us in english and it's not quite working

*Us giggling at each other when we're trying to communicate with the locals and it's not quite working

*Seeing flower bikers line the streets

*Forks

*Student choir of visually impaired perform at Christmas party

*Kids playing

*Friends from SS class taking over

*Locals trying to figure out why I'm holding hands with 2 girls who don't look alike

*7 weddings in the hotel the past 5 days

*Breakfast in the hotel

*Free delivery....everywhere for everything

*Emails from friends and family

*Chocolate Cafe

*Seeing hundreds of eggs being transported on a motor bike...in bags-not cartons

*Smiles from strangers
*Bottled water

*Weird looks from strangers

*Local man asking me for directions...LOL!

*Simple ways of life

*Benadryl
*Peter Pan peanut butter

* “Coca”---from a can

*Asking AA if she wanted congee for breakfast and she asked, “What is that?” (how things of changed in 18 months!)

*my new Merrell shoes....they've saved my feet and back & worth every penny

*thinking about how my girls are going to be happy when they see their stockings hanging in our new “home”

*thinking about how grateful I am for 2^nd chances...or we wouldn't be here