Meeting some of the team

Today is the Monday before Thanksgiving.  I just have to write that because I can hardly believe that November is almost over.  Thanksgiving!  A week from today Chris will be in Germany for 2 1/2 weeks.  When he comes back it will be almost Christmas, and then it will be time to go.  Just like that.  Wow.  Note to self; live in the moment.  

This last weekend, we met some of the members of Chris’ team.  On Saturday we had 4 families over for a buffet here at the house to get to know each other a bit, share wisdom/trials about moving, and for me to have the kids meet other kids that are in the same boat.  Here are a few of the people that came- Adam and Sheryl (no kids), Joette and Russ with their kids Chloe and Jonah,  Jon and Kerrie with kids Cody and Anna, Sandra and Sinisha with their kids Vanessa and Stephan.  All are about the same ages as ours.  The kids played super well together downstairs, basically wrestling the whole time.  (Will’s idea.)  Only one came up crying- Maggie.  She was the youngest, and it was basically late in the evening.  And that’s kind of the way Maggie is right now.  So all in all a pretty good evening!  It was fantastic for the kids to meet other kids that they won’t be saying good-bye too. 

For me there were several highlights- one of my favorites and one I’m going to keep an eye on- Sandra can read Russian.  Wow!  Wouldn’t that be something to have a girl’s weekend in Russia??  Another great highlight- several of the families took 50 pounds of bread flour.  In general I make all the bread for the family.  I wanted to bring over 200 pounds of flour, but the moving company said that it was remarkable similar to “another substance” and that our shipment would get caught in customs.  Don’t want that!  We pulled most of it out and gave it to a church.  Ah, but my smart husband asked if we could stash a bit in other people’s shipment.  We bought more and away we go.  Yahoo!  More than one way around a problem.  Yes, flour is different.  Everything is different.

Of course we had a captive audience to share our stories from the first assignment.  I only hope I was a help. And as it always is, we had way too much food.  We will be eating tacos for awhile, I think!