packages wrapped up with string...

these are a few of my favorite things!

I LOVE getting packages in the mail. My mom {ok I admit...spoiled} me when we first moved from Texas to Ohio 3.5 years ago {not that I am counting}. I kid you NOT...there was a package every week at our doorstep. Sometimes they came on Tuesday, some days the surprise was on Monday...it was such a wonderful reminder of home and the encouragement to feel comfortable and "at home" even though so far away!
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I stopped by my po box on the way home and was excited to see such a sweet surprise from her. It was a Valentine greeting full of chandelier stationery...she knows me too well! How sweet of her though...she knew I would EVENTUALLY make it to the post office and be oh so surprised to find a package full of sweet goodness!

Then I journeyed on home through the inches of snow to find another precious package...this one I knew was coming, but it is still just as exciting to open...see why! It too was even full of such sweet surprises! {thank you Andrea!!!}

I also got the soldering tool I have been waiting for...it is my extra set of hands...so now...I will begin soldering away so very soon! What a wonderful end to quite the hectic WEEK!
PS...to top off the week...we spent the evening catching up with lovely friends introducing them to this... {we LOVE this game!}