Christmas is Coming Early to Us!

August is going to be a great month! I can just feel it! Tomorrow is August 1, and if all goes well, we will take possession of our house. Unfortunately, pest control didn't get done when it was suppose to, so the house has already been cleaned before the spraying. As I'm sure I really don't want to know what they use in pest control here, I'm insisting that I be able to reclean the house fully before anything of ours gets moved in. Ughh...since I don't particularly like cleaning (in fact, let's just be honest, I hate cleaning), I am not looking forward to this. However, somehow my husband has agreed to help me out with this, so hopefully it should go pretty quickly.

Our sea shipment from Beijing has arrived here. It is still being cleared through customs. Steve received an e-mail over the weekend that it was cleared. Good, we thought we could have it delivered whenever this week. Yeah right, too good to be true. They contacted Steve on Monday that they needed some more documents filled out. Steve has heard that he physically has to go down to give a value on everything so that an import tax can be figured...however, no one has officially told him this yet. We are hoping that everything gets figured out soon, and that we can schedule to have our stuff delivered to our house on Friday.

It will be great to finally be in our own place and to have our own stuff back again! It'll be like Christmas opening the packing boxes to see what they hold. Lots of excitement over the little things...things that we take for granted until you are without them for almost two months. (Of course, it'll also be like Christmas with all of the wrapping paper (just not decorative, but instead packing paper), boxes, and quite the mess I'm sure we'll have fun making. Also, I'm sure we'll have the post Christmas let down of "oh, this is all there is."

However, that will soon be remedied by the arrivement of our food shipment towards the end of August. Christmas once again at our household! My mom has finished my shopping for me, and my dad has delivered the food to where it is to be shipped out. I got an e-mail from my mom that they wouldn't let my root beer be shipped. Hadn't really thought about that, but I'm guessing that India customs thinks that this is actually alcohol and not pop. Anyway, here are some photos that my brother sent to me of all of our food at my parents' house.

Does that really look like over $1200 worth of food to you? Of course, have you ever added up how much you spend in 3 months on food? I still have no idea if I'm shipping enough or not. Oh well, I'll make it work...it's better than nothing!

Here is the food loaded in the trailer on it's way to be delivered. Steve was very happy to see all of the cans of chicken. He has now declared this to be one of his favorite foods.

Anyway, so it will be Christmas for a second time in the month of August when this arrives. How am I planning on dealing with the post Christmas let down after the food? By going on vacation! Still working out all of the details of where exactly we are going, but I'm planning on dragging Steve out of town around September 1 for a few days...whether he likes it or not!

P.S. Steve saw monkeys yesterday when coming home from work! Ummm...we're not in Kansas...oops, I mean Illinois...anymore!