Packages!!

OK so I am 25 years old. I am an adult and a mom and a wife. I feel that I am grown up for the most part. But I still get very, very, very excited when I get a package or mail. I get excited to check my mail every day. I think it is just so much fun to get a letter or a card. I am not, however a fan of getting bills, but honestly who is? Since it is the holiday season that means more mail! I sent out Christmas cards this year because things have changed so much and everyone should get mail. I have received some Christmas cards as well. It is so fun to open then up and read what is going on in everyones life and see pictures. We hang all the cards we get on our wall. I have cards from my Poppa and my mom that were sent when we first got here. I like to look back at them. My mom and dad have been sending Turkey postcards from their adventures. She loves them as much as me! They are hung up in her room. I remember being little and getting a postcard from my grandparents when they travelled. That was one of my favorite things. I loved getting postcards from my grandparents. They always travelled the coolest places and sent the best postcards. I love that my parents are doing that with Turkey.

We have been also receiving packages lately. I love packages!! I am like a little kid! When I was in college my mom sent me care packages every so often and I loved them. She would put random little things she had found and stuff I needed. It was the best. It kept me from getting to homesick. My mom has been sending us care packages every so often now too. Mostly for Turkey but she throws some stuff in for James and me. We have been getting boxes with Christmas stuff too. I have a strong dislike for a certain package delivery company. My mom no longer sends me packages through them since they have lost my packages several times since I have moved here. We now go through a better company and so far my packages are all making it. (Knock on wood)

Last night we received two packages at our front door. My mom had told me she had ordered us something for us for Christmas and it was coming and that we needed to wait for a card to come in the mail before we could open it. I called as soon as the packages arrived and she read us the card and allowed us to open them. In box #1 there was a beautiful chair. In box #2 there was a matching ottoman. We were very excited. We now have a very nice living room set. It is a great leather chair that is awesome for curling up with a good book. James is enjoying the ottoman to be able to put his feet up after work. Turkey is also enjoying the ottoman, she enjoys it for singing. She stands on it and sings at the top of her lungs. It is her own personal stage. I have the best parents ever! ( I am currently sitting in my new chair, with my feet up on my ottoman as I type)

Every time the door bell rings and a package arrives both Turkey and me are giddy and bouncy! I enjoy opening up the boxes and Turkey enjoys playing in them. She fills them with her things and turns the boxes into trains or beds or whatever else she can come up with.

We appreciate everyone who has sent us a card or a package. It makes our holiday better. This is our first Christmas not with family. We are realizing the little things that matter. Its not all about presents and material things. Its about the fact that someone thought of us and sent us a card or something in the mail. I received a package from a good friend the other day and it had my favorite coffee and some other fabulous things. You could tell that everything she put in the box she thought about. It was very sweet of her and her family. It makes me smile still. I brewed a pot of coffee yesterday and it was like sitting back home in the coffee shop.