You've Got Mail

         Receiving mail from half way across the world is one of the best feelings possible. I already have quite a history of getting strange things in the mail - While in college my mom sent me a piñata (or two) and a rice crispy cake with the candles already on top of it. 

          Despite our history, I think this last care package takes the cake. I was giddy to receive a Christmas package from home - I'd requested York Mints and other Christmas candy to share. But while sitting on our apartment floor in Kathmandu, happily tearing open my package, I became shockingly aware that there was something giant and shiny in this particular box. 

        This realization resulted in a series of "Oh... My... God..."s and my-family-is-so-freaking-wonderfully-ridiculous laughter. 

     That's right. My family mailed me a waffle maker. You know you have the best mother, sister, and father in the world when they are crazy enough to mail you a freakin' kitchen appliance half way across the world. Not to mention, a kitchen appliance accompanied by your favorite pancake mix and syrup. Turns out, my sister didn't want lots of money spent on her for Christmas, so my mother gave her an empty box with a $100 dollars in it to send me a gift box. I'm not sure who in my family is crazier at this point... whose idea was this again?

     But this wonderful package item (that somehow made it through customs) resulted in me making absolutely delicious golden waffles all the way out in rural Nepal. Not the place I would have been expecting to eat my favorite food. But it was perfect. The perfect way to pull me back from my most difficult afternoons, to remind me that everything would be alright. The perfect way to give my Nepali family a taste of real American food that they actually liked, after weeks of botched pancakes. A perfect way to have a taste of home all the way in Nepal. 

       When I get home I owe my family a thousand thank you's, and maybe a few classes on how to not be so ridiculous. Though even a instructional series on how to be a normal family could probably never stop them from being so crazy generous and thoughtful. Guess I'm just the luckiest daughter and sister in the world. 

Thanks guys!