How to Know it's Winter in Mexico

As I mentioned in my last post, the season changes are much more subtle here and definitely not what we're used to having moved here from the Pacific Northwest... I've been seeing friends back home post pics of below freezing temps and snowy roads and here people are commenting how they haven't been turning on their A/C at night so it must be winter.  So weird.  Last night while I was sleepily pulling a blanket up over us, the idea of this post popped into my head... Enjoy. 

How to Know it's Winter in Mexico:

• you start turning the ceiling fans off in the evenings because it's "too cold" (low 70s)
• you start pulling a light blanket over you at 4:00am instead of just the top sheet because you're "freezing!" (low 60s)
• you start wishing you had kept more than one hoodie when you got rid of all your winter clothes and drove to Mexico
• you start wearing socks around the house (still wearing shorts, mind you) because the tiles are cold on your bare feet 
• you start wishing you hadn't given your favorite pair of slippers away before you moved
• you start wanting (your husband) to make soups and chili and homey comfort food and stay in at night instead of roaming the streets in search of live music 
• you get a hacking cold that lasts for two weeks because of the major temperature drop (85 down to 75) 
• the sun starts going down super early (like 6:30pm) 

• your husband starts wearing "pajamas" (shorts) to bed
• you start wearing more than just your husband's t-shirts to bed
• your husband starts swapping his frat boy tank tops for grown up shirts with sleeves
• your husband actually wants to snuggle on you at night! 
• your husband stops commenting on your "sweat stache"
• you don't go through like 10 napkins during dinner because you don't hafta keep sopping up your dripping face
• you start closing your sliding glass doors and a couple windows before bed 
• you start watching football inside on the couch instead of on the patio
• you see houses fully decked out in Christmas lights and decorated Christmas trees in windows and you say to yourself, "Oh yeah, it's December." 
• you don't leave a butt crack sweat mark on your chair during your outdoor Spanish class 
• you don't sweat off all your makeup before you're even done putting it on
• you can actually blow dry your hair without just re-wetting it with your sweat in the process
• you start taking warm-ish showers instead of cold 
• you start turning the A/C off in your car and roll the window down instead
• when a random rainstorm moves through you think about getting your "warm clothes" (long pants) down from the top closet, but don't actually do it
• the coconut oil in your pantry isn't in liquid form anymore
• you delay your pup's haircut because surely he will freeze to death on his morning walks

Welp, that's all I can think of for now.  I'm really curious to see what celebrating Christmas in Mexico will be like compared to back home...and of course, there will be a post about it! 

Love and miss you all!