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Why We Moved In Before Our House Was Finished

By It's A Necessity|2021-07-09T11:40:14-04:00July 9th, 2021|General, work|

If you haven't heard it yet, WE'VE MOVED INTO OUR (unfinished) HOUSE! And we are loving it. It's not quite finished yet. There will [...]

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Update On Our House Build In Mexico

By It's A Necessity|2021-03-23T09:46:04-04:00November 18th, 2020|build, General, Living Abroad|

Things are moving! The bones of the house are coming together. I find it pretty amazing to go up to our property every day [...]

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Pivot, Turn, and Make New Plans

By It's A Necessity|2021-09-13T11:52:32-04:00September 18th, 2020|build, General, Kids aboard, Living Abroad, work|

A few days ago Eben got a Facebook reminder that we had received all the final paperwork for the purchase of our land, “1 [...]

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An Update On Ellia’s Sleeping: What Worked

By It's A Necessity|2021-03-23T09:46:05-04:00June 22nd, 2020|General, parenting|

A month and a half ago I post to Facebook and Instagram about Ellia's sleep problems. The poor girl was up 2-4 times a [...]

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Homeschooling Tools While Quarantining

By It's A Necessity|2021-03-23T09:46:05-04:00March 18th, 2020|Educational, General, Kids Projects|

Many of you may be finding yourselves in a role that you have never had to fulfill before, that of a homeschooling teacher. Not [...]

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Partying Like We’re Kids Again

By It's A Necessity|2021-03-23T09:46:05-04:00March 6th, 2020|General|

Two days ago was my birthday, and man was it EPIC. I turned 37! Like the title of the post says, we partied like [...]

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School and Homeschooling, An Update On How Our Girls Are Being Educated In Mexico

By It's A Necessity|2021-03-23T09:46:05-04:00February 18th, 2020|General, parenting, School|

Enrolled in one of the Todos Santos public schools full-time, and homeschooling part-time, our girls’ are clocking in a fair number of academic hours. [...]

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Best Gifts For Our Soon To Be 10 Year Old

By It's A Necessity|2021-03-23T09:46:14-04:00November 21st, 2019|BEST PRODUCTS, General, parenting|

Our first baby girl is only days away from turning DOUBLE-DIGITS! What the what!? We’ve got these daily facebook memory pics popping up of [...]

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How We’re Finding Our Rhythm in Mexico

By It's A Necessity|2021-03-23T09:46:15-04:00August 29th, 2018|build, General, parenting, School|

We’d heard it, we’d lived it, we thought we “got it”. Island Time is slow. Mexico time feels like Island Time with the added [...]

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Where Did Our Summer Go?

By It's A Necessity|2021-03-23T09:46:15-04:00August 13th, 2018|General, Summer|

This morning I went and finished the third, final, and very redundant, step of signing the girls up for school! This year the girls [...]

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