Six Months Abroad

So we have been back in the United States for almost a week. Now that we are back, I feel more safe in giving my opinion on some of the things we experienced without any repercussions. The first thing to mention is the city we were living in. We lived in Guanajuato City, in the… Read more

We spent all day in airports going through security, checking bags, moving bags. We are exhausted. See some photos below of our final journey home. We are safe at home. These six months abroad has ended. I’ll post some conclusory posts within the next few days or weeks. Thank you all for keeping us in… Read more

T minus 16 hours before take off. We spent all day home. Hanging out and trying to eat whatever food is left in the fridge. Throwing away food is detestable you my wife. So we made everything we could. According to her, we did a good job. I had to get one thing we needed… Read more

We spent days 177-178 inside. We are still cleaning and packing and stressing a little bit because we are going to have to check extra luggage. That’s stressful to Bonnie more than me. I worry about customs. We fly into Dallas and get all of our luggage. Then we have to go through customs with… Read more

We spent most of the day packing and weighing the checked luggage. The kids got bored and decided to do a dance number of some sort to the music of the nutcracker. Our daughter was the ring leader and I can’t wait to show this to my sons girlfriends later on in life.

T-minus 5 days to go. Nothing interesting happened today. We did some packing. My wife and I have differing schools of thought about how to organize and pack things. With so many kids, I just go into their rooms, take all the items out of it, throw it in a pile and make them go… Read more

T minus 6 days. Today our goal was the pack 3 checked bags. We packed 4. We went through every piece of laundry and packed up all kitchen appliances we brought. As we were packing some of the kitchen items, I was glad that I brought the enormous instapot home when I flew back home… Read more

The remainder of these blog posts aren’t going to be very exciting. It’s all packing, and cleaning. I couldn’t sleep last night because I had three children sleeping on me. Child 2 was on my right arm, child 1 was on my left, and child 3 woke me up by putting a pillow on my… Read more

Today we spent all day in a couple airports. We flew into Mexico City, and the. From Mexico City we flew back to the city we are living in. I took one final photograph of the beach house we rented. The flights were uneventful, and the kids behavior was stellar. Technology was a very large… Read more

T minus 9 days before we fly home. Today was our last day in the Yucatan. We fly back to the city we are living in tomorrow. My oldest son woke me up at 7am and was excited to tell me that he and his mom were fishing. That confused me so I went out… Read more