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Gone are the days of the crazy party-filled spring breaks. Let’s be honest, I was never that cool. But now our spring breaks are an excuse for family vacations. Luckily, everything has reopened within the country. However, travel is still a bit complicated internationally, so we wanted to take advantage and explore some areas ofContinue reading “Spring Break 2021”

A couple of years ago, AJC was obsessed with the fear of getting older. Looking for reassurance, he would say to me a hundred times a day, “I never want to grow up.” or “I’m not going to get any older, right?” However, it looks like he has gotten over this fear because he couldn’tContinue reading “Happy 8th Birthday Ya Filthy Animal”

Every year that we have lived in Panama, we have made it a point to travel back to the United States to visit my family for Christmas. While I love living in Panama the rest of the year, you can’t beat the true Christmas feeling that you get when you are surrounded by snow andContinue reading “Christmas in the Tropics 2020”

On November 20th, PJC turned 5. He has never been so excited for a birthday. He made a chain in his preschool classroom and has been counting down the days. He also took total ownership over this party and had very set ideas on how it should be spent. The first is that he hadContinue reading “PJC’s Spooktacular 5 Birthday Pary”

While this year has been challenging in a lot of ways, it has also illuminated how much we have to be grateful for. During the pandemic we have been constantly reminded how lucky we are to live in a place that has been minimally touched by Covid, a place where we still have freedom ofContinue reading “Thankfulness in 2020”

As soon as the quarantine started to lift, all of the local parents were desperate for our kids to get more social engagement and activity enrichment. In swooped our favorite teacher. She normally teaches the preschoolers and does Spanish lessons for the older kids. However, she had the brilliant idea to start a drama classContinue reading “Bippity Boppity Boo”

We have been living in our little protected bubble since March. Usually by this time, we would have traveled several times with at least two trips to the U.S. In a way, the time has really helped us feel more rooted to our home. However, last week we realized that both AJC had the nextContinue reading “Family Adventures in Morrillo”

2020 has continued to be bananas, but a mixed bunch. Some have been perfect, and others have been super rotten. Globally, the world has been a dumpster fire. The U.S. has been hit especially hard by Covid, has experienced months of protests to address the continued injustice of Black people in America, and most recentlyContinue reading “Back to School….Finally”

As mentioned in my previous post, we entered into 2020 with a lot of plans.  In fact, I had a three phase spreadsheet lining out the deadlines we would have to meet to move back to the U.S. in summer 2021. The action items included deadlines for construction on our outdoor kitchen, steps for aContinue reading “2020 is BANANAS (Part 2)”

I haven’t written since New Years.  We all started 2020 like we do the beginning of any year- full of plans and aspirations.  Little did we realize that 2020 had plans of its own. January started innocently enough.  We rushed back from Colombia to welcome some of my dearest friends to Panama.  Over a decadeContinue reading “2020 is BANANAS (Part 1)”