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By Mamahops, on October 28th, 2007
I could get used to this. Many plates, cups, bowls, pots and pans GALORE, utensils and multiple same utensils, lovely steel utensils, giant cupboards to put them in, drawers and drawers and more cupboards and a BASEMENT! It is seductive, this life of excess of utensil and cupboard space. And more than one . . . → Read More: the seduction of a stick house
By Mamahops, on October 17th, 2007
We’re posting from our gate at the Cancun airport terminal 3. We’re headed to the US. Whether or not we get in, past US Customs, will be the question of the day. We’re REALLY looking forward to seeing everyone but a bit nervous about making our plane. Barry, one of the PaaMul residents . . . → Read More: Really leaving on a jet time this time
By Mamahops, on October 15th, 2007
 For the kids, time can’t fly by fast enough but for Jamie and I it is flying by WAY too fast. The days fill with errand after errand which seem to only pile on top of each other instead of becoming accomplished. Today we hoped to get meds for Jamie, add pesos to our phones, buy presents for those who will remain un-named, pick up lettuce and tomatoes and massive quantities of vinegar. Don’t ask. We spent the morning getting laundry dry (finally a sunny day!), the kitchen packed, and the furniture in the comedor, behind the trailer where it will hopefully not turn into projectile objects in a hurricane/storm. At one point I checked USAir’s website for a different routing and found that had we purchased our tickets today, instead of way in advance, we could have saved $600USD. That was a very bitter pill and while I tried to reason with the US Air customer service, there was no recourse other than to pay $600 penalties to re-book the flight. We then spent the next four hours (honestly, it just might have been that long) finding a doctor to give Jamie a prescription. Almost all the offices were closed as it was siesta time of day but we finally found a wonderful clinic which not only had no problem with the prescription but also gave me some good advice (probotics!) for Jesse and my tummy upset. I was really impressed as the normal advice is antibiotics. I just might buy some anyway as medicine is so expensive in the US. She also had some good ideas for farmacias to try for Jamie’s meds, so off we headed to try and accomplish that feat. The street on which so many farmacias are located has been torn up the last month or so and the first couple farmacias no longer stocked his medication. Those farmacias referred us to other farmacias and it only took about an hour to get a farmacia stocking the medication and purchase it. I was starting to get itchy about getting back to the kids, some 10 hours after we’d left them, but Jamie had to have his vinegar (cleaning the trailer tanks before we leave) so off we headed to Chedraui at Las Americas, which, co-incidentally, was where I had purchased the phones. Continue reading We’re leaving…on a jet plane…
By Mamahops, on October 13th, 2007
 Oh, I did NOT want to go down today. I was still not absolutely well, Jesse was still sick and Pike was on the sickboy fence. We are leaving in three (NO!!! NOT THREE!!!) days and have at least a week’s worth of work to do. I just wasn’t up for it. But I could not have NOT gone either. And knowing that the torrential rains we got up here were even worse down there (and it was raining so hard today on the way home I couldn’t even get pictures of the flooding) made it impossible NOT to go. So we bought massive quantities, arranged for a second vehicle (THANK YOU DEB AND IAN) so we could carry a super dispensa this time and headed out. We handed out water, eggs, a bag with 4 potatoes, 2 onions, 1 chayote, 2 jalapeños, 1 bola garlic and another bag with kilo rice, beans and Maseca, litro milk, oil and pure de tomate, and a can of tuna. It was a hefty dispensa. I also wanted to spend as much money as we could and bought cans of powdered milk and an oat/milk concoction for the particularly poor families with many children. One Dad joked he had a “Kinder” with five kids (probably all under 7). Continue reading Finishing up in Mexico
By Mamahops, on October 8th, 2007
I apologize for my silence; i’ve been rather sick. i’m just about to update the donations page and respond to any recent donations. Please excuse my tardiness and thank you! I’ve updated the page tonight; Saturday will be our last delivery of dispensas as we’re heading back to the US in six days.
By Mamahops, on October 8th, 2007
 i swear, the hardest part of writing an update is the start. making my way to the site and putting words to keyboard. I’ve been sick. A freaking-GAIN and I’m pretty freaking sick of being freaking sick. i picked up some stomach thing that laid me low and had me clicking over the options in my head; amoebas? typhoid? other bacteria? something insidious that I’m unaware of? and nothing really materialized. finally, when the cramping had subsided enough i dosed up on garlic and that seemed to have beat it back a bit. the boys caught the first cold we’ve had in over 3 years and jamie and i have been beating it back with raw garlic. everytime i feel a bit sniffly or scratchy throat i pop a clove and i’m good to go. the boys were down for a couple days but honestly, i’m not sure if it was pure sickness or the excuse to play Runescape hour after glorious hour. Continue reading Not much to say, too much to do…
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