Our long-awaited shipping container arrived in port in mid-January! We are, of course, elated. Up to this moment, we still have not finished unpacking and assembling everything, but our house is looking a lot better already. As Kristi said, "I forgot what comfort looked like. I was starting to think that we were being extravagant getting a shipping container, but now that we have some comfort items from home, I'm realizing what a mood lifter it is!"As we did not have enough items to fill an entire shipping container (the director's house is partially furnished), our goods were loaded into giant wooden crates so that they wouldn't bang around inside the container in transit. The port officials were kind enough to be convinced to come to our house for the opening and inspection of the crates, which eliminated the cringing spectre of half-open cardboard boxes strewn all over a truck bed being paraded through town.
So now, our house is covered in an ever-diminishing stack of boxes. The kids are getting tired of every weekend being filled with daddy assembling furniture, but they're a very patient lot! As soon as it's all done being set up, I'll post some more pictures.
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