I came home yesterday (Friday) afternoon to an incredible surprise - Christmas decorations, gifts wrapped in Christmas packaging, Christmas music on the stereo, and mom making my favorite Christmas dessert - float! By mom's response, I must have had this huge smile on my face. What a great surprise!
One of the things mom and I had talked about over the last month is the fact that I won't be here for Christmas and that the things she has for me for Christmas I can't take with me. I had given her the idea of taking pictures of the items and emailing them to me on Christmas morning - so in a sense, opening my email would be opening up the presents. Well, she talked to my sister in the Middle East on Friday and shared that she was thinking about having me open the gifts before I left, to which Sara replied - "Just do it!" To which I am hugely grateful - thanks Sara!
It was a wonderful night! We had lasagna for dinner (one of my favorite foods), float for dessert, played two games of Settlers of Catan (both of which I lost - oh well! :-), and got some of the coolest gifts I've ever recieved. One gift is the picture above - a set of wood carved bookends from Kenya. Mom picked them up last year on their trip - I love them and they'll look great in an office! Also, mom found a telephone from the 1940/1950s at a garage sale and it's really cool looking - plus it was made in England, which is ironic and fun. Other than that, I got a Christmas ornament from Rwanda, a framed picture from an artist in Kenya, and a "rungu" (a Kenya club) :-). It was a great Christmas!
Plus, it was Christmas nearly four months early - how cool is that! It's a fun way to head off, having been able to celebrate a "holiday" with mom and dad before I leave.
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