We waited and waited and waited for our 20 boxes from the UK to arrive. They took longer than we expected and we were all starting to get very impatient!
On a positive, it was nice to get everything else unpacked and mostly put away before they arrived, however turning up the day before Emily's birthday party was not ideal! We were still very excited though and the girls just couldn't wait to open up a box.
I decided we were only opening a box at a time and everything out of the box had to have a home before we were allowed to open another one! I had a list of pretty much everything that was in each box so the girls had to pick very carefully which box was going to be opened first!
But not before a few photos..... (I just wish we had one of all the boxes lined up in our Taunton home - that would have been cool - but we were too stressed at the time!)
Out came the Christmas Reindeers...
Out came Marie, Toulouse and Berlioz from The Aristocats...
And out came Patch, Lucky and Rolly from 101 Dalmatians...
And out came a lot of other stuff!!!! Aghhhhh...... now that was fun!
After unpacking all the boxes from storage and then having to open all of these boxes, 'Can we open another box?' was said more often than 'Can we have something to eat?' I heard it 10 times a day and there were even a few tears when all the boxes were open and Emily was still asking 2 days later, only to be told (again) that we had opened them all! She was devastated! I too was devastated that I didn't end up bringing back our awesome grater! It was on the list to pack, because it was the best grater ever... but it somehow got left behind with all the boxing and giving and throwing and packing and leaving that was going on! Oh well!
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I bet there were a lot of "i totally forgot about this" ...and a lot of squeals of delight when those toys emerged from their long hibination in the boxes...
Funny about graters... i have finally got one i am happy with and you will never gues from whence the source...AVOV and it folds up tooo ...but i leave it made in the triangle shape....check out that source if you have an avon lady in your area (or mums)
must have felt like Christmas!! well for the girls anyway...not you. maybe you should shout yourself a new grater since you missed out on unpacking it :)
Hannah you are so organised! haha who would think to make lists of what was in each box. Good thinking though ... unpacking is the worst! haha
wow! thats a lot of boxes to accumulate over a year - kids will do that to ya hey!
ohh I know that feeling so well... done it many times... and I love it. We once waited 6 months for our stuff to arrive in the Falklands... once it came we wish we had left it all behind! Opening to crate when we returned to Australia after 5 years.... so funny seeing everything... Loved the girls faces in your pics.
oh soooo exciting!!
FUN! did you find any goodies you had forgotten about?
I love doing that!
The girls did look very excited!
You make me laugh Hannah, that is so something i would do.... unpacking one box at a time!
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