Mangos

Give my kids a mango and you are guaranteed at least 20 minutes of silence!  When you are a mother silence is truly golden! Unless you can't see your kids and don't know what they are up to. In that instance, silence usually means your kids are up to no good. If you don't know where your kids are at this very moment please take a second and GO INVESTIGATE IMMEDIATELY! I'll wait....Everything O.K.? 

We all have visions of our dream house. Mine included having a plethora of fruit trees and ducks...we'll talk about the ducks later. So, one day Im chatting with Alfredo, the Tico genius who has taught us everything about our property & being Tico. I was telling him all about my grand visions to plant all of these fabulous fruit trees. Upon mentioning mangos, a perplexed look grew across his face. Now at this point my Spanish sucked. I mean it really sucked. We were using google translate and hand gestures to get by. I just figured I pronounced something wrong. He began talking and I wasn't getting it... I bust out with one of the only phrases in my spanish arsenal "No entiendo". He then motioned for me to follow him and proceeded to give me a tour of my property. Along the way he would point out different trees and tell me what fruit they bore. He taught me a cool little magic trick.Take a leaf, tear it, & sniff it. It smells just like the fruit of that tree!!! Turns out not only did I have a mango tree, but I had several! #Winning.

* Alfredo started out being our neighbor. Then he began to oversee our coffee farm. Now he is family...