Hello! Hello!

Wow its been a really long time since my last post and ironic that when I do find time to post is when I'm not in Mexico. So where to start!? I did the math and realized that I have been living in Mexico for about 6 months now. Mexico has so many perks and some irks.

Perk
First the area we live is very relaxing. I've always appreciated when you run into the neighbors everyone says "Good Morning, Good Afternoon and Good Evening". Its so polite and I still manage to get them mixed up.

Irk
Aaahhh don't even ask me about the whole peso / dollar. For some reason I just can't grasp money transactions ... "what how much is that? $249.00 mx? What is that in dollar? What's the value of the dollar?" Then sometimes I feel that I MUST be getting scammed... so usually when I get home I need the hubby to convince me that I wasn't. For example, Aaron and I need to take the bus home from school one day. So after flagging down the bus I asked him how much was the fare. He said something around 32.00 mx (pesos) and I'm not quick with the value of the dollar because it literally changes everyday. So the driver says "$1.10 dlls" and I give it to him and feel like I was just taken for my money. Only to come home and Eduardo says "no he was right" and then works out the math for me.

Irk
You really can get scammed at the gas station ... Eduardo always says "make sure the pump starts at zero". At first I was doubtful of this advice until one day the gas attendant woman insisted that the gas pump filled my tank with 50.00 pesos. And we had a good long drawn out argument about what I saw and what she was saying. So I gave her my most menacing glance and said that I know how much gas I had in my tank and how much $200.00 pesos would get me and she better start that pump at zero. So guess who won that ... yep you better believe it was me.

Perk
The food, wow there's so many good, flavorful, cheap food.

Enough with all that since my list will get very long.... Its been 3 months since Aaron arrived with us. At first the change didn't seem to affect him at all. But after about 2 months he started to feel it. He behaving poorly in school and was missing my parents terribly. But after a while he seems to mellow out and was back to normal (after two weeks of meltdown). His school is wonderful. It was through his new school that I find out that he's really struggling with his reading and he's barely getting through 2nd grade. Honestly I felt deceived / disappointed by his last school in Chicago. It seems as though Aaron was just pushed along even though he had teachers who really wanted to help him. I was told he was struggling but not as bad as I was just told with his new school. I never knew its severity! So then my biggest fear was that he was going to be retained because he's just not up to grade level but thank God he's not going to be.

I feel for my husband because he's barely understanding Aaron's autism and he's needs. All in all we're really happy to be together. We've gotten our routine for crossing the border Monday through Friday. There's so much more to tell but I'm already afraid this post is getting too long as it is :)