Today was a very early starting day but for a very, very good reason....our air shipment was being delivered to our apartment. Bright and early at 7:30 AM the Federal truck shows up with our boxes of goodies that we packed up over a month ago to have available to us when we started to get settled in Peoria.
With our accommodations being the CAT apartments, this was not an unusual sight to see. It was actually one that everyone shared a bit of happiness for each other as special things get re-united with their families. So far we've met three ISE American families that have moved back from Belgium and two being from China and one family actually moving here from India. Even though there are not as many ISE's still out and around the world as there used to be, there are still a lot and it's fun to encounter new people who have just gone through an amazing experience like we just did, but are now back trying to re-situation their lives, just like we are trying to do.
The boxes all got lined up in our dining/living room waiting to be unwrapped like at Christmas time. My heart lept as I started pulling out kitchen items that I had been missing...it is funny how little things can really put joy back in your heart in a time when you feel like you are in pure chaos.
The kids were soooo excited to get more toys to play with and things to do. Addison immediately got dressed up and we pulled out all the playdough toys and got to messing around.
Starting to feel a little more normal....
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