Mom Most Traveled’s Fave Blog Posts of 2008

Yazan: CanCan | 31 December 2008 | 4 Comments
Categories: Deaky Deke, Jojo, Laos, Wild Sweet Orange, air travel, embarassing, links, travel with children, traveling baby

I thought for a long time about what kind of post I should write to bring closure to 2008.
Luckily, my entire life is pretty much pain stakingly detailed already in the pleathora of posts I wrote this year.
The best thing to do is to give the best posts a few more seconds of fame before [...]

Beautiful Bumble Bells

Yazan: CanCan | 03 December 2008 | 4 Comments
Categories: Laos, Thailand, children's fashion, coupon codes, reviews, safety

As a mom, I am always fascinated with cultural differences in parenting.
In Laos, there isn’t a mind-numbing variety of “must-have” baby items like in the U.S. In fact, when Jojo was a four months old, his first car journey in Laos drew a crowd of neighbors.
As we were getting ready to leave, my neighbor said, [...]

WW: Around Town

Yazan: CanCan | 03 December 2008 | 15 Comments
Categories: Engrish, Laos, pictures

Jojo and Deeds being welcomed into our favorite jiaozi shop in Vientiane.

A weird sign from the water park in Vientiane, Laos.

Monky Business

Yazan: CanCan | 14 November 2008 | 23 Comments
Categories: CanCan, Laos, links, pictures

Today, for Photo Friday (hosted at Delicious Baby), I thought I would share a picture from the time we decided to do family portraits at the local wat. It was fun, but hot. We got lots of neat pictures that day.

Which monk is the cutest?

Tea Time: Casio Baby-G

Yazan: CanCan | 09 November 2008 | 586 Comments
Categories: Deaky Deke, Engrish, Laos, Mom stuff, Tea Party, air travel, giveaways, pictures, reviews, riding in cars with kids

Hello, Tea Party guests!

I have been looking forward to this week for ages! This is a special week of fun and giveaways just for the ladies!
It is fun to win stuff for our children, but how about pampering yourself for a change?
True, I’m kicking things off a little early, but I just couldn’t help myself! [...]

WW: Rules of the Water Park

Yazan: CanCan | 29 October 2008 | 26 Comments
Categories: Laos, pictures

I saw this sign at the water park entrance in Vientiane, Laos and I thought it was humorous in its (very necessary) attention to detail:

Jojo’s Special Day

Yazan: CanCan | 24 October 2008 | 14 Comments
Categories: Jojo, Laos, pictures

Jojo’s 4th birthday is on Saturday, so today (with permission) we went to his school to celebrate.
At school the children take off their shoes and put them on a special shelf outside the door.

When we arrived, the teacher was having the children make birthday cards for Jojo. I was impressed!

I brought snacks for Jojo to [...]

Culinary Delights of Laos

Yazan: CanCan | 17 October 2008 | 6 Comments
Categories: Laos, Thailand, eating, recipes, travel with children

I just wanted to share two of the many foods that I enjoy in Laos.

In Laos there is a lot of buzz about a little dish called papaya salad.
When I first heard about “papaya salad”, I pictured a lovely syrupy sweet fruit salad, perhaps artfully carved complete with butterflied pineapple.
In reality, papaya salad, or (Tam [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Street Food in Laos

Yazan: CanCan | 15 October 2008 | 26 Comments
Categories: Laos, eating, traveling baby

This week in Vientiane is the annual Boat Racing Festival. We went to the river front today and stayed only long enough to purchase some tasty snacks.
It was just too hot with a CRUSH of people to hang around!

One of the toddler-friendly snacks we picked up is one of my personal favorites, grilled, seasoned sticky [...]

That Dam Stupa (Vientiane, Laos)

Yazan: CanCan | 08 October 2008 | 15 Comments
Categories: Laos, Teaching Kids about Different Culture, travel with children, traveling baby

That Dam Stupa. It is pretty fun to type, but it isn’t pronounced how you think. It is a transliteration of the Lao name, and Lao language has it’s own alphabet. “That” is pronounced like “tot”, “Dam” should read like “dahm”, and “stupa”, well, yeah, that’s “stoo-pah”.

That Dam Stupa (you know you want to snicker [...]