Before Chris left, he had talked about sending our niece and nephew, Olivia and Luke things from Iraq to share with their classes. They love to get mail and are thrilled to show us their school when we visit. When we were there last fall, I went and enjoyed school lunch with them and they beamed at the idea. Anyway, even though Chris isn't in Iraq yet, he wanted me to get the info for their school. He is going to send them an RME (??), which is basically a packed lunch. I had envisioned this to be dehydrated food, but it sounds much appealing. My sister talked with the school and they are quite excited. The kids are going to print out Chris' picture, so the kids have an idea of who he is, and then they are going to share letters back and forth. Olivia is especially excited. She wants to know exactly when the first package will arrive. Hopefully Chris gets on the ball and sends the package soon! He definitely has some excited kiddos!
So, we are still roughing it in our amazingly, wonderfully fabulous, new house. That means, air mattresses in our living room. Fun. The girls love it, Chris and I not so much ;) Anyway, the close proximity means Chris and I get to eavesdrop on some very tender moments. They seriously bring tears to my eyes. How did we get so lucky to have them as our children??? Here's one example. Claire--"Mya, can we snuggle?" Mya--"sure." Claire--"don't let go." Mya--"No, I'll just wait until you are sleeping." Claire--"No, you wait until the middle of the night." Mya--"Okay, I'll wait until the middle of the night." Then we hear lips smacking. So cute. I won't share the meltdown that occured moments before this sweetness ;) Life isn't always rosey, now is it? Ha! In other news..we get internet today and our furniture/things tomorrow! That means 1 more night of "roughing it!" Yippee!
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