2 Holidays

Hello! Welcome back!

First off, an apology: I promise I won't just be writing on special occasions. Kenia and I have been trying to figure out our schedules, and unfortunately this has taken a backseat for the past number of weeks. But we're back! And I wanted to share a little bit about how we planned this blog from the beginning.

Kenia and I are from different countries, different cultures, different lifestyles and different families. We agree on the big stuff, like a lot of the ways we want to raise our future kids, religious perspectives, and the foods we both like (very important), but we disagree on practically everything else.

Now, I want to make something clear: That isn't a bad thing! It makes things interesting, and it makes us both work toward understanding each other, possibly more than a single-cultural couple would have to.

Hence, this blog. Meet Me at the Border is a way for us to share with everyone how we make it work... and how sometimes it doesn't.

So Kenia and I have talked about how we want to share our traditions, and this past week we got to observe two holidays! One mostly American, the other very Mexican. I'm talking, of course, about Halloween and Día de los Muertos.

Since we still don't have any kids, we don't really have any traditions for Halloween. This year we went to a friend's party on Halloween, and we got to dress up as Dustin and Steve from Stranger Things.

For Día de los Muertos, since Kenia doesn't have a lot of family here in the States, we decided to make our own tradition of watching Disney's Coco and doing some genealogy.

We're both making an effort to accept the others' traditions and ideas, so these compromises are fun, easy ways for us to be introduced to a different way to celebrate, and to get to know each other a little better.

Thanks for reading! See you next week!