We are trying to fit in just a few more field trips before Nanna returns to the Great White North (Alaska) so yesterday we took off for Chichen Itza. The girls and Aunt Kim and I had already experienced one field
Cenote #2 – Jardin del Eden
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 Haley
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 ago
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 nightly
Haley’s Version of The Summit
The week before last, we went to a gathering called the summit, and it was made up of about 30-40 families that came together to talk about homeschool / worldschooling. My mom wrote about it too, which you can read here.
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 A/C
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 but
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 to
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 about
Cenote Fun
It’s Dan this time. Allison is taking a night off to recuperate from her amazing feats of daring acrobatic skills. See below video for highlights. We’ve been in Mexico going on two months now but we’ve hardly done anything REALLY