Friday, August 11, 2006

A double blessing

Yesterday we were all pretty excited...we got two packages from Prince Edward Island on the same day! We have only received about five packages altogether, so to have two of them on the same day is quite special. One of the packages was from the O'Connors and it had some school supplies and pictures in it. The other package was a box from Miss Farrer's junior church group at Grace Baptist Church. It was full of pens, pencils, notepads and candy. The girls were thrilled! We now have plenty of school supplies. The kids at school will no doubt be very jealous of our girls as they have such nice pens. Pens like they recieved cost an absurd amount of money here.

While everything was very nice, there were three items that really stood out. Among the box of goodies from the church were three glittery red pencils with big Canada flag erasers at the top. When the girls picked which one would be theirs, they burst into song. They sang "O Canada" from beginning to end with great gusto. I wish you all could have seen it. They obviously miss Canada a great deal.

Thank you O'Connors and Miss Farrer (and class!) you really blessed us.