Yesterday

The little boys woke us up at six a.m.... which in our house is early for the boys to be up. (Sorry, not trying to rub it in.) You would have thought it was Christmas with the crazy excitement about THE Barang Sale.... which is the huge community-wide garage sale held up at the MK school every May. It's next to Christmas in importance on the boys' calendar. Cheap toys! Free junk! YEAH! Extra special this year as the boys now get an allowance and have their own spending cash. :) 

Elijah's been really sick lately, so Brant just brought him for a bit, but it was enough time to walk away with a broken set of plastic golf clubs, a mini airplane and wood carving kit that I'm afraid is going to be used on someone's eyes.... all for a grand total of $1.20. He was a very happy little boy. :)

My other happy little boy was sweet Caleb, who lost his first tooth yesterday afternoon. We couldn't convince him to yank it on Friday to insure a little extra Tooth Fairy shopping money. But I guess he's happy that since he spent all his money (two mini airplanes, a jigsaw toy, a transformer) he now has a replenished supply. 

Is it bad that for Elijah's first tooth the Tooth Fairy brought him $5, but for Caleb the Tooth Fairy got cheap and just gave him a $2? (Yes, we have $2 bills here.) Elijah lost his tooth while we were in the States last fall... but the economy's way different here... $2 will buy both Brant and I dinner out here!

MY big excitement for the day was an early Mother's Day present... Brant moved the last 5 boxes out of our living room! (and stashed them who-knows-where!) We have a HUGE living room - seriously we measured it out this evening and our entire tribal house will be the same size as our living room is now. So the 5 random boxes of junk I hadn't gotten around to unpacking since FEBRUARY weren't really in the way, but they were starting to bug me. :) It looks so clean and empty now in that corner of the room! I am beyond thrilled. I am a tad concerned as I have no idea where the boxes went, but most of the stuff was too small boy clothes or baby books and toys, so I guess I will live if I never see them again. :)

Last night we had our monthly fellowship dinner with all our co-workers. The ladies all sat at one table and talked about the best strategies to make homemade yogurt and what to do with powdered eggs. Sometimes life seems like a funny dream here.