Friday, March 14, 2014

Don't want to forget

I just have to record a conversation this week with my kids because I don't want to forget it when they are older and well traveled and speak perfect English :)

A: Mom, how many pulperias are there in the world? (pulperias are little neighborhood stores that sell all your basic cooking needs.  Its genius and they should be in every American neighborhood...)
Me: I don't know.  Just think about how many are in Mami Berta's neighborhood
A: (counting....) like 20
Me: Yep, and that's one neighborhood, so I don't know how many there are in the world.
A: Well how many are there in the United States?
Me: The US doesn't have pulperias
All kids: (agast)  Where do you buy your food??????????????
Me: At the grocery store
A: What if its raining?
Me: You still go to the grocery store
A: You walk there?
Me: No you drive
A: Mom... people do not all have cars
Me: Right and sometimes people use public transportation, but most drive
A: Okay well what if its Christmas (translation, that's how they say when its snowing), then where do you buy your food?
Me: The grocery store
A: Well then you can't drive because its Christmas.
Me: They clear the roads, or if you live up north you have special tires or put chains on your tires
A: Mom, those don't exist
Me: okay
A: Okay but mom if its Christmas how do you wash you clothes?
Me: You have a dryer... most people have a washer and a dryer
A: Right but its Christmas so you still can't go outside to wash them
Me: No, your washing machine and dryer are inside your house
All kids: Mom... no one has their washing machine in their house.
Me: okay

Enter google images... search for grocery stores, snow tires, snow plows, chains on tires, laundry rooms... thanks internet!

Seriously its time for these kids to come to the states for a visit...

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