J-E-L-L-O spells home!

About a month ago I purchased tickets for our trip home in January (yeah!) from an online company located in the U.S.  It's a big trip because we are first going to New Orleans, then Charlotte, and then back home to Abu Dhabi.  For some reason part of our trip was not available in e-ticket form, only as paper tickets they needed to mail to us.  And of course they would only mail them to a U.S. address, so we had them sent to my mom.  We planned for my mom to send them to us but it turned out that new and dear friends of ours were headed to Atlanta two weeks ago for a visit home.  His mom happens to be from Augusta which is basically the town next door to my mom!  So the two moms met where my mom gave his mom our tickets and a bag of goodies and his mom took it to him and his wife in Atlanta.

Well, Thursday night we had suishi with a group and our friend is back from the U.S. although his wife is still in Atlanta.  We received our plane tickets and our "bag" of goodies.  A Wal-Mart bag FULL of sugar-free Jell-o and sugar-free Jell-o pudding mixes!  Yeah, I'm so excited, I can't find sugar-free desserts here anywhere.  I know it's silly but sometimes the littlest things make me think of home.  So we are now set, twenty two boxes worth, of Jell-o for quite sometime.  Thanks Mom!  I am now starting my shopping list for all the things that will come back in my suitcase with me in January.