Santa Clara del Cobre, Mexico

My husband and I visited the state of Michoacan in Mexico last week. Now I get to share with you all the cool things I saw and did. Let’s start with the fun little town of Santa Clara del Cobre not far from Morelia.

It is the town of copper. We saw men heating and pounding the copper into shapes. Did you know that it can take days to make one bowl or vase? They heat the copper and can pound it into shape only until it gets cold and then they have to reheat it.

All the shops sell copper items; store after store after store. Everything I looked at was beautiful so to honor the town and support the economy I bought copper candle sticks and a wine decanter lined with silver and …… well you get the picture.

By the way, the weather was very cool (they are 6,000 feet above sea level there) and we actually saw at one point in our trip a snow covered volcano.

I love the diversity that you can find in Mexico and once again we encountered the nicest people. I am very happy to live here.

Enjoy life's adventures!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. My ebook: Only in Mexico You Say? The Humorous Side of Living in Mexico is available now on my site http://www.onlyinmexicoyousay.com/.

Would you like help to visit or live in Mexico? Visit http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com/.

Are you looking for a way to earn money so you can live in Mexico? Maybe these ideas can help.

My husband's Playa del Carmen Real Estate office – http://www.onestopmc.com/.

Living in Playa del Carmen - the 10 things I love the most

Ten things I love about living in Playa del Carmen, Mexico

10. The many beautiful, friendly, hugging, cheek kissing people.
9. The bountiful and beautiful beaches.
8. The laid back culture.
7. The really, really warm weather pretty well all year round.
6. Takis (a spicy rolled corn chip) actually sold all over Mexico.
5. The beautiful, fine, white sand.
4. The beautiful many shades of Caribbean blue ocean.
3. Fresh seafood – especially shrimp tacos.
2. Great restaurants!
1. The fact that my husband is with me.

Interestingly sometimes the same things I love can drive me nuts – like the laid back aspect is a challenge when you need something done! But that brings us back to our focus. How do we choose to look at things? And what is really important?

I better also add the fact that Mexico makes me ponder life (which I love). What do you love about your favorite area of Mexico or about wherever you live?

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. My ebook: Only in Mexico You Say? The Humorous Side of Living in Mexico is available now on my site http://www.onlyinmexicoyousay.com/.

Would you like help to visit or live in Mexico? Visit http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com/.

Are you looking for a way to earn money so you can live in Mexico? Maybe these ideas can help.

My husband's Playa del Carmen Real Estate office – http://www.onestopmc.com/.

More sand in Playa please

Playa del Carmen’s beaches are being rebuilt!

It’s delightful, just delightful. The beach is now wider, more spacious and grander!

Again this fits in perfectly with my desire to take more beach time.
I can feel the sand between my toes now. Oh, is that a pretty shell?

Maroma Beach watch out as Playa del Carmen is looking better than ever and feeling even better on the feet. I feel so lucky to live here.

Enjoy the Adventure!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. My ebook: Only in Mexico You Say? The Humorous Side of Living in Mexico is available now on my site http://www.onlyinmexicoyousay.com/

Would you like help to visit or live in Mexico? Visit http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com/.

Are you looking for a way to earn money so you can live in Mexico? Maybe these ideas can help.

Would you like to own property in paradise for only $40,000? This is my husband's development in Bacalar, Mexico http://www.losflamboyanesbacalar.com/. We are planning a house there.

My husband's Playa del Carmen Real Estate office – http://www.onestopmc.com/

More Maroma Beach

Fifteen minutes drive from our house is one of the top 10 beaches in the world – Maroma beach.
I have written about it before but I have to mention it again. You see going back is part of my New Years resolution to spend a little more time on the beach.

We went again on a Sunday so that all the activities were not running and we could have some quiet time. Our plan worked perfectly as there was also quite a breeze happening so not many others decided to visit this beautiful beach at all.

We had the finest of sand blowing about hardly noticeable until you get home and shake out your bags, towels and clothes! It is a good thing we consider sand a symbol of living the good life because I think we still have some hanging around.

Enjoy the Adventure!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. My ebook: Only in Mexico You Say? The Humorous Side of Living in Mexico is available now on my site http://www.onlyinmexicoyousay.com/

Would you like help to visit or live in Mexico? Visit http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com/

Are you looking for a way to earn money so you can live in Mexico? Maybe these ideas can help.

Would you like to own property in paradise for only $40,000? This is my husband's development in Bacalar, Mexico http://www.losflamboyanesbacalar.com/. We are planning a house there.

My husband's Playa del Carmen Real Estate office – http://www.onestopmc.com/

Mexican sand on your feet

Got sand?
Got sand between your toes?

My husband and I live in Playa del Carmen with the benefit of beautiful beaches a short walk from our house. We moved to Mexico because we wanted warm weather year round, a different culture, palm trees and the beach. Yep, simple needs.

You know what can happen when you live in paradise? You can get caught up in a day to day routine of things that need to be done (especially when you are not retired here) and forget some of the very reasons you moved here – like the beach!

When you live here – don’t let this happen to you!

Our slogan around our house is … if you don’t have sand between your toes, you are not spending enough time at the beach. We welcome sand in our pool, sand on our floors and sand on our car mats.

Sand on your feet equates fine living to us.

Enjoy the Adventure!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. My ebook: Only in Mexico You Say? The Humorous Side of Living in Mexico is available now on my site http://www.onlyinmexicoyousay.com/

Would you like help to visit or live in Mexico? Visit http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com/

Are you looking for a way to earn money so you can live in Mexico? Maybe these ideas can help.

Would you like to own property in paradise for only $40,000? This is my husband's development in Bacalar, Mexico http://www.losflamboyanesbacalar.com/. We are planning a house there.

My husband's Playa del Carmen Real Estate office – http://www.onestopmc.com/

Our Mexican Gingerbread Castle

Every year the kids and I create a gingerbread house – it is tradition. We missed this tradition for a few years when we first moved to Mexico because I was positive ants would eat it!

The kids persisted and I relented. It turns out that Mexican ants must not like molasses and gingerbread because it has never been a problem.

This year our gingerbread house turned into a castle. This was our first try at a two tiered gingerbread creation.

Interestingly, this year’s rock hard gingerbread turned soft within a few days. The castle stood up but the reindeer fell asleep.

Nothing mattered though as my son’s only goal once it was built was to eat it.

Enjoy the Adventure!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. My ebook: Only in Mexico You Say? The Humorous Side of Living in Mexico is available now on my site http://www.onlyinmexicoyousay.com/

Would you like help to visit or live in Mexico? Visit http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com/

Are you looking for a way to earn money so you can live in Mexico? Maybe these ideas can help.

Would you like to own property in paradise for only $40,000? This is my husband's development in Bacalar, Mexico http://www.losflamboyanesbacalar.com/. We are planning a house there.

My husband's Playa del Carmen Real Estate office – http://www.onestopmc.com/

I live in Mexico by choice

I can relate the following incident to my life in Mexico.

Over the holidays my computer crashed – several times. I would take it to be fixed and get it back and it would crash and I would have to send it to be fixed again.

It was the holidays – I didn’t really want to be on it anyway as all my family was home (our daughter goes to University in Michoacán, Mexico). However I did have some blogs to post for my ‘Live Your Dreams’ life coaching practice which I could not post as they were all trapped in my non functioning computer. I had to chill. Mexico often reminds me to chill.

Now I am sure I would have had the same computer challenges no matter where I lived but not having my computer brought me back to many of the reasons I moved to Mexico…

Enjoying the beach … enjoying my family … chilling out … to be more laid back … to stress less …
I did without my computer and life went on and I was still happy. There are many things I have chosen not to have in Mexico and I am still enjoying my life tremendously. I don’t have TV, I don’t have a clothes dryer, I don’t have a blow dryer, and I don’t have a dishwasher to name a few. We may have everything available to us but we can always choose what we put in our lives and how we spend our time.

I got my computer back yesterday and all seems well. I may not however spend as much time on it now. Mexico often calls me to focus on other things and I think I’ll choose to listen more.

Enjoy the Adventure!

With great love, Suzanne

Suzanne Marie Bandick
Live your Dreams Life Coach

P.S. My ebook: Only in Mexico You Say? The Humorous Side of Living in Mexico is available now on my site http://www.onlyinmexicoyousay.com/

Would you like help to visit or live in Mexico? Visit http://www.liveyourdreamscoaching.com/

Are you looking for a way to earn money so you can live in Mexico? Maybe these ideas can help.

Would you like to own property in paradise for only $40,000? This is my husband's development in Bacalar, Mexico http://www.losflamboyanesbacalar.com/. We are planning a house there.

My husband's Playa del Carmen Real Estate office – http://www.onestopmc.com/