One Week Left

Like the flowers they gave me at work?
Yesterday was the "fine dining" experience for selected students. The food service company set up the library as a fancy restaurant, complete with tablecloths, china and silverware, and floral decorations. They served a four course meal, and the aromas of their meal made all our mouths water! I hope the kids I selected enjoyed themselves. Anyway, these were the flowers used as the centerpieces on the tables, and Principal Barton gave them to me afterwards - dunno where the vase came from, it's absolutely beautiful!

Okay, time is quickly running out, going way too fast for comfort! This whole shipping business is complicated. We have to list the measurements, weight, and contents of all boxes, we have to load the truck when it comes, we have complex paperwork to fill out, and labels for all the boxes. The shipping company hires a local company to pick up our stuff, and there's no guarantee that they can get someone to come out before Thursday - there's a better chance of it if we haul our stuff to a local business, eg. our church. So we load a pickup,(neighbor says she has a nice blue one that we can use - thanks, neighbor!) haul everything over there, unload it and reload it on a truck. Then hopefully it will reappear in Argentina, but the trick is getting there before our stuff does! I'm waking up in the morning (and during the night) with my mind full of details that I've forgotten during the day. The end is in sight, I'm glad we elected to ship from here, otherwise, I'd be driving myself crazy in New Jersey over Christmas!