October – Turkeys and Pink Ribbons
Karen Moves to Mexico Blog
by Karen moves to Mexico
3y ago
October is not just Canadian Thanksgiving, It’s also Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For me they kind of go together. I cannot believe it’s been a year since I last wrote in my blog.  Today.  Exactly 1 year.  So much has happened in that year.  We continued to deliver food hampers until Christmas and then we moved to delivering soup in the back of a van throughout the neighborhood.  In April we opened Refuge of Hope to children who come every day for meals, school and love.  If you want to know more, check out our Facebook page or website. Lots of stories and photo ..read more
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Some very exciting Thanksgiving News
Karen Moves to Mexico Blog
by Karen moves to Mexico
4y ago
We have 2 pieces of VERY exciting news to share… But let me back up a bit.  Today on this Canadian Thanksgiving, I am once again reflecting on all we have, remembering where we have been, dreaming about where we will go.  Last month marked the 5-year anniversary of our move here and it would be an understatement to say that my life looks absolutely nothing like I expected it to.   I have had a lot of 5-year bubbles in my life, but this one picked me up and took me to a place I had never known existed and had not bought a ticket for.    I have always promised ..read more
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Rice and Beans, Beans and Rice
Karen Moves to Mexico Blog
by Karen moves to Mexico
4y ago
Wow – our last post was 6 weeks ago and our lives look very different – and yet surprisingly unchanged.  In our last post I told you we had delivered 25 bags of food to people in our community who are now unemployed.    Today we will deliver our 1,000th bag!  And considering each family is at least 5 people, that’s over 5,000 people who have been fed using the donations that our friends, family and coworkers have sent our way. I have lots of stories and each day I have updated my Facebook page with pictures and musings of the day – I just haven’t sat down to update my ..read more
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Through Our Covid-19 Window
Karen Moves to Mexico Blog
by Karen moves to Mexico
5y ago
Many of you have been reaching out to make sure we are okay down here and to ask how things look in our neighborhood.   While Mexico is a couple of weeks behind Canada and the US, we are facing the same situation, the same questions, the same directives and the same fears as you are dealing with north of the border. As of today, there are 94 cases and 3 deaths in Jalisco, which is our next-door neighbor.  In our state of Nayarit, there are 8 cases reported and 1 death.  But we are being told that Apr 2-19 is when our trajectory will rise.  We have been given the same STAY AT HOME orders as you ..read more
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The Saddest Goodbye
Karen Moves to Mexico Blog
by Karen moves to Mexico
5y ago
This is the saddest blog story to date, but I have promised to be real about our life here and sometimes that means sharing the tough stuff too. One of the things that drew us to move to this area on the Bay of Banderas was our work at the Children’s Shelter Manos de Amor.  From the very first visit, we fell in love with the children and with the work that was being done in the shelter.  Children who needed a safe place because their own moms and dads and grandmas just couldn’t care for them.  For many reasons.  For hard reasons.  Every little one had a story and we became a part of each one ..read more
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Normal – Not so Normal
Karen Moves to Mexico Blog
by Karen moves to Mexico
5y ago
Last week we had a visitor from Canada – one of my very favorite people ever.  I always tell visitors that our doors are open, the rent is free BUT when they get home they must write a post about their experience with us.  Their story, their thoughts, their lessons.  That is the price of spending a week in OUR paradise.  So here are the thoughts of my dear friend Niki who blessed us immensely with her presence in our lives and in our home: I had the amazing opportunity to spend a week in the home of some of the people I love and admire the most on this planet this past month.  Typically, when ..read more
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A Wedding on our Street
Karen Moves to Mexico Blog
by Karen moves to Mexico
5y ago
It’s been a while since I have written a blog post and this week, I was challenged by a few different people about that.  Some were friends.  Some were strangers who have been reading.  What happened to us?  What happened to our story?  And I realized that we have settled into our life here and now it feels normal.  Just normal. And I forgot that there’s nothing normal about what we do here, and I need to continue to share it all.  Not because you particularly need to hear it – but because I need to tell it.   To stay in the moment, experiencing the wonder of it all every day. What could be a ..read more
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Love Always Wins
Karen Moves to Mexico Blog
by Karen moves to Mexico
6y ago
Now that tourist season is over, our little town is quieter and visitors to the Children’s Shelter where we work are fewer.  That has given me some time to think about the many families and volunteers who visit us over the winter and to ask the question that others have asked me “Is it good for strangers to visit children who come from hard places?”.  Honestly, there are many answers to this question and as a disclaimer, let me say that this post is going to contain my opinion based on my experience.  That’s it.  My personal gut feeling.  Which I think is okay because….. it’s my blog!   It’s m ..read more
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For Everything, There is a Season
Karen Moves to Mexico Blog
by Karen moves to Mexico
6y ago
I have had many people tell me the main reason they couldn’t live in a southern location like Mexico is because they would miss the changing of the seasons.  I know what they mean.  The crocuses and tulips popping through the ground in spring after the many months of cold.  The hot days and nights of summer with vacations and BBQs and lake swims.  The reds and golds and oranges of fall leaves.  The new crisp air and the change of wardrobes from cutoff jeans to long jeans.  From flip flops to sneakers.  Everything pumpkin spice.  And then the inevitable sudden blast of that first snow.  The bea ..read more
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