Today is the day before Thanksgiving and I am thankful we are having dinner at friends tomorrow. My house has been upended! We are packed and ready for the flight on Friday afternoon, minus last minute carryon items. IF I can keep the boys out of their backpack and suitcases. They keep retrieving toys out of them. And pulling out out clothes to make sure I did pack the favorite t-shirt that has been requested roughly five thousand times. (Thank you, Shawn White for designing for Target!).
Momo keeps me excited by counting the sleeps with me and the boys are beside themselves with anticipation! So fun!
Today I have to mail Christmas presents to my nephews. This year I was finished shopping by mid-November! Deadlines are good for me. I will sure miss my family this Christmas but poor Kiko has missed Christmas with his family for years and its about time he got one! Thank God for this blessing of an extended holiday and the opportunity to grow our business in Chile.
We have totally full bags that we already took to the airport to weigh and each one is right at 50 lbs. Two of our four suitcases are presents! Yay for Christmas! We hope to make it really special for the boys sharing their first holiday with our South American family in the summer! I might miss peppermint everything but am excited to see what they traditionally enjoy for Christmas.
I packed 1/2 my clothes in a size too small. How's that for motivation?
We had a fiasco with our airline seats as we thought to check on them the other night for some reason and discovered our assignments were changed and our little family was not sitting together on a 9 hour overnight flight. For a minute it was tempting to let some stranger deal with my two year old at 3 am but responsibility won out and we spent an hour with an American Airlines supervisor on the phone insisting she could do nothing and that the flight was sold out nearly and the best she could do was put me and kids in the back of the plane and Kiko in the middle. Um....no, thank you, that's not very helpful. Kiko got on Skype with his father in law at his travel business in Santiago and they were able to change our seats to our preference. I am really not impressed with American and am hoping the many issues we have had with our tickets prior to departure are the worst of it!
Our friends, the Phillips, always have awesome testimonies of favor when they travel and we are releasing that over us for this trip!
I better sign off as it doesn't appear the house is willing to clean itself today.
Chao! (Chilean for bye!)
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