August 27th thru September
2nd
First week home. It is hard to explain how strange it is not
to be in Bolivia. It is surreal. It is an odd combination of feelings. We miss some things and are so happy to be
back with our family. We spent the week
working on cleaning out and going through the “black hole” (storage unit). We have been so impressed with the job our
kids did in packing and emptying our house.
What an enormous undertaking and they boxed and labeled everything. But now we have pulled out everything to
review what to continue to store and what to get rid of. Every muscle in my body hurts. I have lifted and moved every piece of
furniture and every box at least twice.
We had to rent two extra units in order to have space to sort through
our stuff. This is what is left after
our children took things they wanted and could use. It has been a challenge to decide what has meaning
and what we can live without. Chris had
a beaded purse she had taken to a formal dance in high school. She had put it in the keep pile and then she
started laughing. Why would she keep it?
So she took a picture of it and gave it to our 5 year old grand-daughter,
Ellie, who thought it was beautiful.
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| The beaded purse. |
One
of our friends said she wished she had the courage to do what we are
doing. It is a little unnerving to let
go of many things, but it is also incredibly liberating. On Saturday, we had a garage sale. What didn’t sell went to Deseret Industries
that very day. No second thoughts. I was able to repack what we didn’t want to
get rid of into a smaller unit. We went
from a 10 X 25 foot unit to a 10 X 10 foot unit. It was a lot of work but I am glad it is
done. Chris spent Wednesday and Thursday
tending James and Kirstin’s two little one while they had a 5th year
anniversary getaway. Genevieve and Sam
with their two little girls arrived. All
our kids and grandkids are now close and we will be getting together for fun
and games. We let Ginny’s family stay
with Charlotte where we were staying and we went to John’s home. He also lives in Bountiful so we are
close. Sunday we met with our new
Bishop and asked him to start a new set of mission papers for us. We have appointments with our doctors and
dentist in Ephraim on Sept. 9th and 10th, so we needed to
be able to take the medical forms with us Monday, Labor Day, we had a mini
family reunion at Lagoon. For those of
you who are not from Utah, Lagoon is a mini Disneyland. James and his family did not make it because
he had taken time off for his anniversary the week before and he had to
work. His oldest is only 3 and really
the older kids are the ones that enjoy Lagoon.
But we had a ball floating in the Lazy River at Lagoona Beach and going
on all the rides.
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| Papa and Willa one of the 3 grand daughters who were born while we were in Bolivia. |
We miss all of our
friends in Bolivia. We are going to get
together with the Jackmans and the Winkfields and whoever else can make it this
Wednesday. I hope to remember to take
our camera so I can share with everyone in Bolivia.
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