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Hernia Surgery in Mexico – My Experience

Hernia Surgery in Mexico My Experience FB

Last night I only got a couple of hours of sleep. Between our boys sleeping with us because of Sawyer’s bad dream and my hyperactive and stressed-out brain thinking about my hernia surgery in Mexico today… A good night’s sleep was futile! I had an umbilical hernia and a half-inch of diastasis recti, which is […]

10 Ways We are Worldschooling in Mexico – Life in Mexico with Kids

10 Ways We are Worldschooling in Mexico - Life in Mexico with Kids

We have been living abroad for almost four years, worldschooling in Mexico with our four children. We moved here in 2013 from the USA. Our goal was to live a simple life, spend time together as a family, stay healthy, and put our Bible ministry in the forefront of our lives. So far we have […]

Finding a House in Mexico – What are My Options?

Finding a House in Mexico What are My Options

Finding a House in Mexico – What are My Options? Lots! We have lived in Mexico for over seven years and in two different cities in the state of Michoacan. Our experience doesn’t give me any room to speak for beach locations or popular expat destinations like Lake Chapala or San Miguel de Allende, but […]

How Does a Family of Six Live in Mexico On $2000 a Month?

How Does a Family of Six Live in Mexico On $2000 a Month

Updated 12/10/2020 with the current exchange rates – First, let’s just get our income out of the way. My husband is a pensionado or a retiree. His income comes from social security disability because of a brain injury in 2001. I don’t have much of an income. My blog and photography are mostly for enjoyment […]

5 Things We Love And Hate About Mexico Public Schools

5 Things We Love And Hate About Mexico Public Schools

There are good things about Mexico public schools and there are bad things about Mexico public schools. We put Sawyer, our five-year-old, in the third grade of pre-primary school last August. (This is equivalent to Kindergarten in the US.) We took Sawyer out six months later and decided to homeschool him. Six months of schooling […]

Mexico Gated Communities – Five Reasons Not to Live in One

Mexico Gated Communities - Five Reasons Not to Live in One

Updated January 29, 2021 – We have lived in Mexico for seven and a half years. We have lived in three different Mexico gated communities during that time. One in Morelia and two in Uruapan, both in the state of Michoacan. We have also lived in four homes that were not in gated communities. Just […]