Our sea shipment arrived yesterday! When we left Minneapolis the stuff we were going to ship was split into two shipments (plus whatever we could take on the plane) - one 1000 pound shipment travelling by air, and one large container which went by sea. The air shipment arrived on the same day that we got into the house, and as I said the sea shipment just arrived, right on the two month anniversary of our arrival in India.
There are a lot of things we put in each shipment which we had been told is hard to find here, but have actually not been so difficult. Things in this category include kids' art supplies, peanut butter, clothes (we have waaaay too many clothes) and boxed mac and cheese. On the other hand there are a few things we were surprised that we couldn't find - non-spray deodorant and the Gillette razors I use, plus fitted bedsheets - so we've been relying on my work friends who are travelling back and forth to bring these essentials for us. But on the whole it feels like we balanced things pretty well - we have the right amount of furniture, we have lots of kitchen and bathroom paper towels, and we now have a barbecue! Stella, our cook, was really excited to see the new kitchen gadgets and things, and we're hoping Suma isn't too overwhelmed with the extra cleaning and dusting she'll have to do with the extra furniture. We had two beds in the shipment - Emma's and mine, and Toby's. After two months of the kids sharing a room, Toby was able to sleep in his own bed in his own room last night, and I think both he and Dara were fine with that. Emma and I were very happy to sleep on a decent mattress at last - Indian mattresses tend to be very firm indeed, so having a nice plush American mattress to sink into was wonderful.
There are a lot of things we put in each shipment which we had been told is hard to find here, but have actually not been so difficult. Things in this category include kids' art supplies, peanut butter, clothes (we have waaaay too many clothes) and boxed mac and cheese. On the other hand there are a few things we were surprised that we couldn't find - non-spray deodorant and the Gillette razors I use, plus fitted bedsheets - so we've been relying on my work friends who are travelling back and forth to bring these essentials for us. But on the whole it feels like we balanced things pretty well - we have the right amount of furniture, we have lots of kitchen and bathroom paper towels, and we now have a barbecue! Stella, our cook, was really excited to see the new kitchen gadgets and things, and we're hoping Suma isn't too overwhelmed with the extra cleaning and dusting she'll have to do with the extra furniture. We had two beds in the shipment - Emma's and mine, and Toby's. After two months of the kids sharing a room, Toby was able to sleep in his own bed in his own room last night, and I think both he and Dara were fine with that. Emma and I were very happy to sleep on a decent mattress at last - Indian mattresses tend to be very firm indeed, so having a nice plush American mattress to sink into was wonderful.
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