Day 113

We stayed in all day today. Bonnie went on a couple errands in the morning, and I supervised my children going on google classroom to participate in their classes. Now picture me trying to connect my children into Spanish speaking classrooms under google passwords I was ignorant of, while at the same time, policing the children from paying attention to their classes. If you pictured me failing miserably, that’s hurtful, and 100% correct.

School ended, we had lunch, and I did a few loads of laundry. Bonnie and I were exhausted and decided to let the kids watch a couple movies. We watched Twins, and Kindergarten Cop. Bonnie folded the laundry I washed, while I may have fallen asleep during one of the movies. For dinner we had cold cuts and cheese, and popcorn. I made chocolate chip cookies from the bucket of cookie dough. I tried teaching my oldest how to make cookies, she was not interested. I’ll eventually teach my boys how to bake.

After the last movie ended, we put the kids in bed. Child 1 and 3 are rooming together this month, because Child 4’s birthday month is this month. We give them their choice on whether they want to have a room to themselves or have a sibling to room with them, and child 4 chose child 2. I wasn’t surprised at that.

I want child 3 to talk to me constantly. With his missing teeth, he has a lisp and hasn’t caught on that’s why I’m usually giggling when he talks to me.

In a few weeks I’m traveling back to California to bring things back home to alleviate the final transition home. I’m also having to bring back some items. We have dishes that we broke here in Mexico, and luckily I found replacements that I shipped home. I will be also buying some more luggage. On the way home in July, I purchases two checked baggages per person on the way home, = 12 checked bags, and 2 carry ons per person, and a personal item.

The transition here to Mexico went amazingly, we attribute this to literally every person we encountered, the airport security, Mexican immigration workers, flight attendants, even the passengers were so warm. The people really love and adore children, so I imagine when they see a family of white people struggling with four kids, they seem to adore us. I’m actually writing this on Day 114. I should get back to work, hope you have a good day. *