Mexico 16

Wow - What an adventure.  All I can say is amazing!!!  The first day we get to McAllen, Texas my wallet is stolen.  I lose my debit card, driver's license, ss card, etc.  That's pretty crappy - you'd think it would just go downhill from there, but no.  Once we get to our site and meet our family and start work - everything else moves to the back of my mind.

I was supposed to be in Mexico.  It was an amazing experience for both me and the boys.  getting to meet the families - getting to know my group - moving outside my realm of comfort was unbelievable.

I feel like I have found a little part of me that I didn't really know was lost.  Trying to talk to our maestro my spanish tarted coming back -it was so fun.  Soon we all started doing the half spanish/half english thing with each other!  It was too funny!  See ing our group interact with the Mexican children near our work site was so uplifting.  It was just people with people - 

Working hard all day - getting up at 5:45 and going to bed at 11:00 or so - sheer exhaustion has never felt so good.  We got home late last night and Mitchell looked at his bedroom and said - "You know Mom - my room is about the same size as the houses we were building - it really makes you thankful"!

Mission accomplished!