Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Overseas living

There are alot of positives and negatives about living overseas. The main negative, I'm dealing with is baby necessities, i.e. formula, baby food, diapers, etc. Thankful, BP gives us an air shipment of 2,000 lbs. Then comes the hard part trying to figure out how much formula and baby food to buy. I plan on breast feeding as long as I can, but know I wont be able to do it for longer than 4 or 5 months, so I bought 40 big cans of formula from Sam's. Next, was adding up how much baby food to buy. People in the store probably thought I had 10 kids with how full my cart was with Stage 1, 2 and 3 foods. Your probably thinking, "Don't they have formula and baby food in Baku". I have seen the brand Nestle for formula, but it is not USDA and they recently had recalls on it. Baby food, I've only seen a few choices in Stage 3. Diapers and wipes, they do have, but are way more expensive and you don't get as many in a pack as you get in the states.
So for the last month I have been shopping non stop for baby things. I actually said the words "I'm tried of shopping" to Justin. GASP!!!
Here are a few pictures of what our office looked like before they packed everything.



Even simple things as Gatorade and Red Bull are hard to find.

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