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YOU KNOW YOU ARE AN AU PAIR I USA WHEN:

- you always introduce yourself with : 'Hi! my name is (your name), I'm from (country) and I have (amount of children you are taking care of) children.
- everybody is greeting you with a 'Hi.How are you!' and you can't respond fast enough, so you say it first!

- the worst thing is, when the daddy is working from home And mommy, varsta!!

- you spent all your money at the MALL and you still have nothing to wear

- you hate Dora, The Wiggles and Thomas

- you say silly instead of stupid   Dah Gor inte alla det??

- you go to PLAYDATES

- you drive over 30 minutes to a friend and you think it's not far

- you only have other Au Pairs as your friends

- you say 'like' and 'totally' every three words

- someone has asked you stupid questions like: 'do you have cars in your country?' - 'You don't have Valentine's day?' - 'Where is your country?

- you don't think it's wrong to have cake AND ice cream

- you park as close to the store as possible so you don't have to walk even one yard too far

- you cherish moments of silence more than ever before

- you notice yourself saying 'GOOD JOB' a hundred times a day Hahah de e det anda jag sager dagarna i enda

- you wonder why you slept the whole night long so uncomfortable and you notice the next morning, you slept on a barbie, a lollypop, sandtoys etc.

- you need to be creative to find new punishments because a time-out doesn't work anymore

- you're sure you don't want own kids within the next 100 years

- you know now exactly how difficult it was for your parents to have little kids and you feel like saying thanks for all you've done to your mum and dad every day

- you're ready to drink anytime of the day

- you've learned what it means to be patient

- you take a nap, after you dropped of the kids at school (after being up for just 2h)

- you are DRIVING to the busstop to pick up your kids, which is only 200 meters from your house. Kunde inte sakt det batre sjalv

- the kids call you mum cause you spend too much time with them

- you think $160 every weekend just for shopping and coffee are much in your country but not that much here

- one cup of coffee doesn`t make you awake anymore, it just makes you alive

- you don't walk into the bank, you use the drive inn to get your money

- you use Purell instead of washing your hands

- instead of singing song from the radio your singing childrens songs