And our apartment living room tonight:
Big sigh of relief and thanks on our end; our shipment is here. It all looks great. We joked in September that it would "be like Christmas" when our shipment arrived .... hmm. Little did we know it would literally be Christmas! Nevertheless we are having a blast opening boxes that we haven't seen the contents of in 2 1/2 years - dishes, artwork, wedding gifts. It's a little bit like receiving them all over again.
And we are so thankful for God's kindness in it all. We'd be totally fine without any of it - it's just stuff - but how delightful to enjoy things that feel like home to us, that we find to be beautiful, that remind us of people we love and miss.
Now, we just have to figure out how to get the couch in through the second story window....
