In honor of my mom being with us and because we just doggone LOVE centoes, yesterday we went to two of them. We took Mom to the cenote we went to last time since we knew it already. We also wanted...
Isla Mujeres, our new favorite island
We like islands. We seem to gravitate to them in our travels. We’ve been to Hawaii 4 times, South Padre Island twice, Bocas del Toro 3 times and Isla Iguana 3 times. We went to Cozumel a few weeks...
Crocs! (no, not the shoe)
We are happy to have Nanna (Allison’s mom) visiting from Alaska for a few weeks. She’s thawing out a bit and enjoying the low hum that is the activity around our house. And she’s learning a lot from our...
We Heart Cancun!
It’s unanimous: we love Cancun. Here’s just a few reasons why we love it here. 1. Weather. the sun is out in force but it’s still so pleasant. We get a great breeze in our house and we haven’t been using...
The Tourist Tax
You might remember our visit to some nearby ruins called Coba. Well, a few days after that trip we noticed Zoe had a lot of bug bites that appeared rather suddenly. She’s a bug magnet so we weren’t terribly surprised...
The “S” word in homeschooling: Socialization
One of the most common questions that homeschoolers get is “But don’t your kids need the socialization that school provides?” I’m not going to go into that because that question has been addressed 8 ways from Friday. I’m here...
Gringas at the Planetarium
The last Friday of every month there is no school in Mexico. And I was pleasantly surprised to find a number of different workshops and classes geared towards these kids who are now free during the day. We learned...
Cobá Ruins
Yesterday we were invited to go on an excursion to some Mayan ruins with other students from the girls’ language school. I accepted the invitation because 1) someone else was organizing it; 2) someone else was driving; 3) it was on...
There’s an app for everything…
…including making friends. When we decided not to enroll the kids in school here in Mexico we knew it would be a little harder for them to make friends and we’d have to put in a little more effort...
Who the heck is Ptolemy?
On January 1 we implemented a new homeschool/unschool regime. You can read all about it here but it was pretty much the opposite of a regime. Now, 3 weeks later, we thought you’d like an update… First, let me...