A few days ago we received two notices in our mailbox that indicated we had parcels. Now, where are they??? Time for some investigative work. First, Google translate the notice (because it obviously is written in Finnish). Confirmed! We have two packages. Now what? Call the phone number written on the notice and of course there is a recorded message in Finnish of which I only recognize "yksi", "kaksi", "kolme", "neljä" (one, two, three, four). I assume they are telling me what number to press for my inquiry...if only I understood Finnish then I would have pressed the correct number. Oops, instead I press some number that gets me passed to three different departments and then a dead line. Hmmm, now what? We look up the "posti" on-line and find the post office for our postal code on Google maps. With any luck, we will walk there (about 15 minutes away), the packages will be waiting for our arrival. After an adventurous walk through ice, snow, and slush...we make it and YES, the packages from Ohio come home with us.
We decide to have a Christmas dinner, complete with big salads and dinner entertainment: opening of the packages! Woohoo. Christmas comes early. We tear open the boxes like an excited bunch of five-year olds and find many items we have been dreaming about lately: almond butter, refried black beans (YUM!), margarita mix (Oh, yeah...I
sense a Mexican fiesta in the the near future), UNO (finally, I can make
Charlie draw four), lemon cookies (mmm!), green chilies (great for my
mother's enchiladas recipe), salsa, dryer sheets, pretzels, deodorant (the dry kind), shaving creme, and dental floss, and so much more. It is funny how certain items at home bring such comfort, especially when you cannot find them where you live. We are very appreciative of all of the thoughtful gifts from the Mathies family! And, we are especially thankful that the gifts are all perishable (for the most part) and not material...these days we are being very intentional about decreasing the amount of material items in our life. I guess that moving out of the country and purging a lot of material items makes you realize that simplifying your life is liberating and good for the earth! Woohoo.
A few days ago we received two notices in our mailbox that indicated we had parcels. Now, where are they??? Time for some investigative work. First, Google translate the notice (because it obviously is written in Finnish). Confirmed! We have two packages. Now what? Call the phone number written on the notice and of course there is a recorded message in Finnish of which I only recognize "yksi", "kaksi", "kolme", "neljä" (one, two, three, four). I assume they are telling me what number to press for my inquiry...if only I understood Finnish then I would have pressed the correct number. Oops, instead I press some number that gets me passed to three different departments and then a dead line. Hmmm, now what? We look up the "posti" on-line and find the post office for our postal code on Google maps. With any luck, we will walk there (about 15 minutes away), the packages will be waiting for our arrival. After an adventurous walk through ice, snow, and slush...we make it and YES, the packages from Ohio come home with us.
1 comments:
Sure is great that Santa found you way over there. Looks like Charlie and you have been good kids. Of course, how else would I expect you to be. I'm sure that many thanks went out to Charlie's parents.
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