It's Christmas in July

After only three and a half weeks, our shipment, which got here before we did, was released from customs! Happy Day! It felt like Christmas when all the boxes started to arrive. There must have been 20 huge boxes. There seemed to be many more things than I remembered having been taken from our preschool room a few months ago. But I was pretty excited to open the boxes and see what I thought was important to have with us. Did I really need all that stuff?

All day long we unpacked and put things in their places. Brent was off doing interviews with missionaries most of the day and I stayed at home to receive our goods. Thankfully it was a day when Jackie came to help. She's a delightful person and such a hard worker. We worked together for seven hours and then Brent came home and we worked another couple of hours. Boxes were unloaded and most things put away. Just a few things now to assemble. It is like Christmas!

At times I thought that maybe I should have lived without some thing. There was so much to unpack. Maybe I could have gotten along with less. Others have done it. Actually, we've done it. But then I found some very special things and I was thrilled. It amazing what things become meaningful to you when you're away from home. It really did feel like Christmas!

Some things you just need to have. Right? We're so blessed to have many comforts and conveniences that make life easier. It brings just a little of our Arizona life to our Kinshasa home.