Our shipment finally arrived! On Tuesday morning at 9:00 AM there were two moving trucks outside Meranti 107, aka casa di Getzinger. Kathi was allowed to stay home and oversee all of the chaos that was about to ensue. There were seven movers as well as our house help. Sydney even stayed home to help Kathi point people in the right direction. The scene was crazy. We had stuff everywhere. The boxes came in, were unpacked and then headed out to make a cardboard and paper mountain in our front yard. The house was quite the ant hill of activity.
Our good friend Shannon came over after school and helped Kathi put the massive amounts of "stuff" in the appropriate places. She was an awesome help! Shannon and Dave then had us over for some of Dave's famous BBQ chicken pizza so that we wouldn't have to worry about finding anything that had yet to be unpacked in the kitchen department. That was great because the kids were able to get some food. At the rate Kathi was going from box to box they might never have sat down to eat.
We live right across from the school and our back yard is the meeting place when there is an emergency at school. We had a fire drill on Tuesday so all of the students were very excited to see all of the movers bringing in our stuff. Because they all had to wait to get their shipments they know what an exciting day it is. It was cute to see how excited they were about our stuff coming. I even got a few high-fives out of the deal.
We all voted on our favorite item we received so here it is:
Brooklyn: Toys- She went around repeating "I am so, so happy! I have toys"
Kade: His John Deere bike. He rode it to school today. We live across a two lane road. It took him longer to walk to our garage and get it out than it did to ride it to school.
Sydney: Food. M&M's are an oh so precious commodity.
Kathi: The couch and love seat. We were sick of the doctor's office furniture.
John: The IPOD sound dock. Music is a wonderful thing!
Kathi did a great job and pretty much everything is put away. We brought a ton of food. I am not sure if our house help was really prepared for all of it. They looked a little lost at seeing all of the stuff we brought especially the food. They just kept shaking their heads. We did get some chocolate chip cookies made out of the deal today. Very tasty.
It is hard to explain but the house finally seems like it is ours. We painted the walls to warm it up but getting stuff from home just makes everyones spirits so much better.
Check out the pictures and have a great day!
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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2 comments:
Your house does look a lot more homey now. I'm glad that Sydney got her M&m's, Kade his bike and Brooklyn her toys, I'm sure that the house feels more like a home now. Love, Grandma/MOM
I can't imagine your school letting you ship all that stuff over. I am so jealous!! The only stuff that I have is what I could cram in 2 suitcases without being overweight. My director told us not to ship anything, because it would get held up in customs. We would have to pay alot of bribery money to get it out, but mostly you never see it again.
I am also very happy for you. I know what that must be like. I just wrote on my blog how excited I was to get baking powder. It was like Christmas.
I love reading your blog. Your experiences are so different than mine.
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