Cold days: 31 weeks, 6 days in utero

For the last week Poor Pui has been suffering from a cold. She's having trouble sleeping at night (and thus I am too) and wakes every morning with a sore throat. We called the Nurse Practitioner, who basically said that most Over The Counter medications in small amounts is OK, but that there wasn't anything else really we can do.  I wish there was something we could do to help her out, besides try to give her moral support.  :-(  Instead I try to help as I can. I have had Dad show me how to fry eggs and make scrambled eggs, and I have more or less figured out the toaster (those charred pieces of bread in the garbage had nothing to do with me, I deny all knowledge and/or association with those pieces of carbonized bread, and I resent the implication that I had a hand in their creation.) I have become a pro at making a warm fresh-squeezed lime-juice-and-honey drink, and even learned how to soft-poach eggs (though we decided the egg was too undercooked for a pregnant woman). All of this may not have helped Pui's cold, but it has certainly earned me some brownie points. 

Today Pui had a craving for some lamb, so she, my father, and I went to Crossroads Mall and got some lamb dishes at their food court. The food was fairly expensive, and we got just a little bit of lamb. It was very tasty lamb, but still ... it was 3 or 4 times more expensive than that similar dish would have been in Thailand. The price of food here is one of the starkest differences. Aside from the temperature, that is. But another place nearby had some tasty ginger tea and yummy fried squid balls, so it wasn't too disappointing. (Four years ago, I would never in a million years have thought I would, in all seriousness, write anything like that last sentence. Funny how Life can change your existence!)

Pui's mother recently had a pace-maker put in, and being away from her mother when she was having a surgical procedure done didn't do anything to help alleviate her misery. But the procedure was a success and Khun Mae is doing well: to every one's relief. She's a delight, and we all hope for the best for her.