06/19/2026
The arrival is beautiful, sometimes chaotic. The excitement is real. The girls are wide-eyed and everything feels like possibility.
And then day three happens, day four and day five.
The novelty starts to settle. The routines you relied on at home don't exist yet here. You're in a new kitchen figuring out where everything is.
The girls are a little restless. You're a little restless. And the hub doesn't start for almost three weeks.
This is the part nobody usually posts about.
We're in that in between phase right now and I want to be honest about it because I think the gap between arrival energy and settled rhythm is something families need to know about before they do this.
It's not bad. It's just real. It's the adjustment that has to happen before the life you came here to live can truly start.
We travel so slowly that it's never really go go go and days full of activities. That rarely happens.
So we're filling the days with exploring. We've explored the neighborhood some and the town square. A couple pupuserias. Today was the Botanical Gardens - entry was $2 (only $1.50 for children) and the girls ran around for two hours.
The Children's Museum is on the list. The beach is coming. This weekend we're checking out the city and historic sites more in depth.
The rhythm is building. It just takes longer than the highlight reel suggests.
Follow along because I'm documenting everything, including the parts that don't make it into the beautiful travel posts. And grab the free Opt Out Checklist in my bio if you want to see how we built toward this.
