...you always introduce yourself with : "Hi! my name is (name), I'm from (country) and I have (amount of children you're taking care of) children!!"
...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.
...you go to PLAYDATES.
...you've seen more movies in one month than in your whole life at home.
...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.
...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.
... 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 start to love disney movies again and can copy every passage of them.
...you've learned what it means to be patient.
...you know what a LCC is.
...you know that you should never SHAKE A BABY!!!
...the kids call you mum cause you spend too much time with them.
...you think $160 every weekend just for shopping and coffee are not that much.
...one cup of coffee doesn`t make you awake anymore, it just makes you alive.
...you miss the good old days when you were able to go to the bakery and get real bread with real crust (not that American sh** called bread...)
...you don't walk into the bank, you use the drive inn to get your money.
...you use Purell instead of washing your hands.
...each of your hostchild has 5 webkinz and the kids still wanna have more, because friends of them have like 25!
...you cannot hear the word - potty training - without freaking out, because it is so disgusting to clean up all that poop and pee from the floor, couches, beds, clothes, ...!
...you think that 4$ for gallon gas is way too expensive (0.68 eur/liter)
...everytime you say you are from Germany, they say either "I know someone who knows someone whose brother-in-law/neighbour/haircutter has been to Germany or "Sprecken Sie Deutsch" with the great American accent.
...you look in the fridge the fridge is full and you have nothing to eat inside.
...you have not enouth money.
...everybody calls you "honey".
...you just can't stop saying "you know", "allright", "come on",...
...Hannah Montana has become part of your daily life.
...you have no idea how you'll ever get all your stuff back home.
...you count to 3, hundred times a day, to make the kids listen to you.
...you think at least 10 times a day "I'm not gonna raise my kids like that!" and "Thank God, these are not my kids!"
...you are upset because the mall closes at 6pm on a sunday!!!
...you clean up the playroom because it takes your kids hours to do it and you can get it done in 5 minutes.
...you'd really like to eat a schnitzel or a bratwurst instead of a veggie dog.
...it feels weird , when it's quiet at home (no screaming or yelling kids, running around)
...you eat out every weekend.
...your credit card doesn't want to be used anymore.
