Party 2023
I’m posting a few pictures from our annual Guatadopt party, which this year featured traditional textiles modeled by young women in our group. Thank you to everyone for your amazing energy, friendship and support in setting up, cooking, serving, hauling dishes up and down stairs, washing dishes and bagging up trash. And for being your […]
18!
We blinked and Mateo is 18. Happy birthday to our beautiful, smart, funny, original son. xoxo
Trip to Chichicastenango
We spent a few days in Chichicastenango in the department of El Quiche, northwest of Guatemala City in the highlands, elevation 6,447 feet. “Chichi” is 98% indigenous Maya K’iche, with 21% of the population speaking only K’iche and 71% bilingual K’iche and Spanish. Chichi is known for its market day, which attracts sellers and buyers […]
At the restaurant Agua
Here’s a photo of family and friends at Agua Restaurant in Antigua Guatemala. With us in the center is Carlos Haas, university professor in Munich Germany, who grew up in Germany and is adopted from Guatemala. I’m grateful to Carlos or connecting with us as we overlap trips in Guatemala–and to all adult adoptees in […]
Mother’s Day late
I’m not on Instagram but my children are and on Mother’s Day they each posted photographs which they forwarded to me. The pictures warmed my heart, so I’m sharing them with you. Happy belated!