Our life in Mexico City

I'm very excited to start our family blog!  Since we are away from home and want to stay close to all of our loved ones, I thought this would be a great way to do it.
I will try to keep up with all of our adventures throughout this year here in Mexico!
Also, I can see already how this space will be used to share a little more about our family, how we all grow and embrace life, how we learn from each other and how greatful we all are to be together on this journey!
So far, we have been embracing the culture, language (many new words to our vocabulary...for all of us) and even the city life!

When we first arrived to Mexico, we lived in a very small apartment and quickly found schools for the children and a home for all of us!!  We were so blessed to have met a wonderful family who was also in the same situation as we were....looking for  a Waldorf school for our children.  We fell in love with the only two Waldorf schools here in the city.  "El Bosque de Micael", http://www.waldorfmexico.com,  a Waldorf initiative school with an amazing community and a great location, with a wooded area where the children go for walks 4 days a week.   It has a mixed age early childhood class with children as small as 18 months to 6 years old.  We loved it right away and decided that was the perfect place for Daniel.  Unfortunately, this school does not have a third grade...so we looked at the second school which was far away from Danny's school, but it was just  perfect for santiago,  it has lovely teacher, a very deep anthroposophic background with eurithmy and all the wonderful therapeutic aspects of this genius of education!
Thank God we had our friends who were in the same dilemma as us and we all decided that we would commute together and keep our small children in one school and the big kids in the far away school!
And as it turns out, it is not so bad...they have an easy ride in the morning since they are going against traffic and in the afternoon is about 45 minutes due to traffic, but now, Isabel and Santiago are great friends and they talk, share jokes, and have a good time in their carpool.
I'm sooo happy we made this decision because I see now, two months after how both my children are happy and thriving!  Thank you angels for guiding our way always!!!

Then, we found our home, sweet home!!!  Yeah!!  With a big garden for the kids to roam and still be in touch with nature...for cookie to run around and chase squirrels, for mami to plant flowers and vegetables and for all of us to enjoy many lunches outside breathing the fresh air and hearing the birds sing!!

Here's what the house looks like now, after much love being poured into it!

                                                   

 Autumn is here!!

                                                          

Our bedroom and my special place for books and craft supplies

Santi's bedroom with a lovely window looking out at the big tree in front of our house and of course....a bunk bed!!  With a big bed on the bottom for guests!!!

Danielito's room with his beloved friends Mateo and blue bear

The living room is huge!! so we use it as a playroom and a living room all in one....and a fireplace for cold nights!  Our hammock is up now...so now it really feels like home!

The playroom has been loved already... playdates are so much fun!!


Here they have the whole city layed out...with traffic, accidents, plenty of homes and even talls that are quite expensive!!
I love to see 3rd graders playing side by side with much little ones and still enjoying that wonderful fantasy world of childhood!!

           Our nature table

The dinning room....still needs some art up on the walls....we'll see what I can come up with!!

    

The Garden!!