Three months ago we sent 8 boxes of our housing goodies to Honduras...We just received them yesterday! It was a SUPER exciting day! I now have all my kitchen necessities (a whole real set of silverware, my salad spinner, good knives, and of course my Indian spice collection from our dear friend Joseph Arockia). Not to mention WAY too many clothes and shoes (but there was a certain homey smell that accompanied them). Our friend, Eric, organized a brigade of about 7 maintenance men from the school to bring our load of rough looking boxes to our apartments. We rushed home yesterday to greet our dearly desired stuff. Of course, now we have a few doubles of things, but hey! Our stuff is HERE! And besides baking powder (why did I think they wouldn't have that down here?) coating all of our stuff in one box, nothing was broken (happy sigh). We packed a few things too many--and so we're having a party at our place this weekend where all the newbies on staff will bring an "white elephant" gift from their boxes to share. I'm sure someone's going to enjoy receiving a few magnets and our Big Lebowski costers. :) However, I wish I'd packed hangers. I threw away so many when we were moving from St. Louis...not to mention the other things we got rid of that I'd like to have about now. But hey...it's takes time to make a home, right? And in just a week and a half we're heading on our first vacation--to La Ceiba! I actually reserved our hotel rooms in Spanish two nights ago. That was quite an experience. I'm enjoying using the necessary phrase: "Despacio, por favor!" (slower, please!). So...here are the pictures of our Christmas! "God bless us, everyone..."
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YAY! Colin looks... crazy happy to have clothes... but really mainly crazy... period.
It's the red-eye look...he said the same exact thing!
I've never seen anyone so enthusiastic over a shoe organizer except for myself. I miss you, Elisa. I'm glad you have your stuff and I'm glad about your "swine flue vacation," but what I would really be glad about would be to walk into school and into room 215 and see you sitting at your desk with your light-up flag in the background and have my nose burning from the candle that Kristina DeYong gave you for Christmas last year.
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