Kids Carry-on Luggage with Initials

In the midst of renovations, adoption updates and home-schooling, we decided this year is actually the best time to take the boys back to Guatemala for their first birth-country return trip.  They’re old enough that they’ll remember it, we’re hoping our next adoption will complete in the next year (meaning we’ll need to be at home with a strict routine again for a while, while we and the newbies adjust to one another), and we don’t want to let too much time lapse before we re-connect with the people we (sort of) know there.

So that’s the boys’ “big” birthday item from us up there in the picture: personalized carryon luggage ($20 at Walmart, plus $1.50 for the letters I hot-glued on).

We found great round-trip flight rates with Air Mexicana ($332.70 apiece, total!), and we’re planning to stay at the hotel in which we first met them three and a half years ago.

Squaring away our site-seeing itinerary now.  Can’t wait to see them seeing Guatemala again.  They’re definitely excited to be going back!