Mini Monkeys, Mr. Monkey and Mrs. Mommy Monkey....

There is so much to say about Mexico I don't know that I will ever do it justice.  They say a picture is worth a thousand words so I will  "si" if I can't get a 100,000 or so covered in this blog! 

This is Mexico *the view from my house!!!!  

I took the picture about an hour ago!

and this is Mexico


Click here to go to a youtube video I made a bunch of years ago.....

and this is Mexico... 

and this is Mexico....

and this is Mexico

and this too...

THE BEFORE

There is so much trash along the roads.  Almost all of the roads.  In the school where I teach, many of the kids (and their parents just throw their trash on the ground.)  Now before you think I'm up on my "high horse," I will let you know that I am from up along Lake Erie...  a small town you may have heard of that is right outside of dreary Erie, the mistake by the lake.  We got that horrible reputation because of all of the pollution that hospitals and EVERYBODY else threw into the lake.  One of the rivers that empties into the lake actually caught on fire in the '70's sooooooo.....  

BUT.... then the litterbug campaign got started, and I didn't care.  I threw trash out of my friends' car windows because I guess I thought it was funny...  or cool... or something else equally stupid.  I don't do that any more.  In fact, I was involved in those Adopt a Highway programs and went with my family every 6 months to pick up what had accumulated.

So, sometimes my Mr. Mexican Monkey Husband chastises me for not bringing enough of the USA to our world here. Two weeks ago, I got tired of seeing all the trash piled up in the circle in the middle of a coldasac type thing they call a glorieta.  I told my family every morning, if it is still there on Friday when we pass by, we're going to pick it up on Saturday.  Friday, it was still there.... so Saturday the girls and I went to pick it up.  

THE AFTER

Today was the first day the four of us went.  The plan is that from now on, it will be our regular Sunday night thing....  

Here is a picture of my team!

Way to go Mommy's Monkeys!!!  I'm so proud of you!

Wish us luck that we can follow through with this, and that today is the first Sunday in a million!  More importantly though, wish for me that my girls grow up to make this (or something like it) a habit, a tradition, a part of their lives for the long haul.