Home is where the heart is……

Two little pure dog hearts might agree with that saying but our human hearts were having a hard time calling this place home.

Home, it seems, drove quickly to the west coast, boarded a slow boat to Mumbai, traveled by a slower train to Delhi and then arrived by truck at 9:00AM today. Things. Tyler Durden, you were right!  

Yesterday, I commented to Kari that this was already our home. Today, as I see the strands of ‘holiday’ lights on the table, the prized items acquired over the years in unsorted piles throughout the living room, and the weird things that I am not sure why the movers packed, I am left with two thoughts.

1)   Thank goodness our things are here!

2)   My things own me.

Why give this any thought though? I don’t know! I just ate lunch using nice heavy silverware out of a bowl that is shaped just right. My tennis racquets are here and Frisbees too! Kitchen items as far as the eye can see and electronics! Wireless speakers, Nintendo, another laptop, and so much more. Kids’ items to make the nursery look welcoming to its future guest (presumably so that the child’s heart also recognizes home). There I go again.

I now have enough clothes to go more than two weeks without repeating outfits. The dogs have toys. Our walls will soon come to life with paintings that were so carefully packed. Ahhhhhh, home.

I’ll include photos so that you can see our expert movers. ‘Expert’ was their term used many times so that I would not try to help. They did move with a great deal of care but they were expert Indian movers. The subtle difference caused a good deal of difficulty at times. Our items were assembled in our ways. Our ways vary from the local ways. An example; the way a normal metal bed frame connects. You know those two pegs that fit into the two openings and then you pull them opposite ways and the pegs slide into the slits to create a rigid structure? That, it seems, is not the way it is done here. Much confusion ensued.

So we now have everything here (that we didn’t store in San Antonio) except 1 (one) baby. Not sure when that will be delivered but I do know that it will be before November. Can’t wait to show the baby its new things!