The first email I read this
morning was only one sentence in length plus a picture worth a thousand words
“Dear Tina, here I am with the play book at last. ;-)”
In a second email Sasha
wrote:
“Have just caught myself on the thought that I am having fun
with all this, though sometimes it looks a bit frustrating, but sure Spirits
help us.”
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Yesterday a US International
Postal service rep contacted me in response to the inquiry I had previously
made. She shared what we already
knew - the Moscow Postal Sorting Station had experienced a fire recently and
thus did not move any mail for a week.
Lanie said she would place a urgent request for a tracking investigation
on our package. She said sometimes
a little prompting helps push things through. I should call back in 4-5 days to find the results of the
investigation. I replied, “Forget
the investigation, just have them deliver the package!” Today it was delivered! Yipee!
I was slightly disheartened
that I spent so much time and money Thursday to get a second Playbook
shipped. My dear husband lovingly
stated, “You could not afford NOT sending the second book. The risk of Book #1 not arriving on
time was too great.” Gotta love
that man!
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Also, after 42 days, Sasha
has finally received the postcards I sent him.
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Sasha’s
Mother is out of the hospital.
Tina,
Thank you for the concern... Mother will never be good already. Almost every
day she takes pain killers. She suffers joint pains and many other illnesses in
addition to heart. … To say more, she tries even to help me; when Sereja is at
my place, she prepares some food and "crawls out" to the kitchen garden
to water the carrot, parsley and other agro-cultures and tries, successfully,
to direct Sasha: what he should do and what he should not to....
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Sereja
(Sasha’s son) is now out of school for the summer and will be staying with
Sasha for the next few weeks
“Sereja has a party at school today (Friday) on the occasion
of the end of primary school. Now, we are going out with Sereja to
the town to have his hair cut.
…
I visited Sereja’s Advancement to Secondary School
Celebration. There was dinner,
dancing and each of the children released a balloon with their secret wish
attached to it.
Ex wife Lena was there too.
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Just 3 weeks until Sasha’s scheduled arrival …
Ahem...
ReplyDeleteI TOLD YOU SO -- that Book #1 would arrive right after you sent Book #2.
Well, did that happen to frustrate you, or was it due to karma -- the fact that you made the effort perhaps got Book #1 pushed through.
James 2:26 -- Faith without works is dead.
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Looks like you've spread your unique style of blogging to Russia. The photo of Sasha holding the specimen looks so much like the photos you took of people working on the Penny Palace.
I think you're getting your wish of wanting to spread joy...half way across the globe.
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It warms my heart to read the love between mother and son in Sasha's writing. She'll be proud to receive a postcard from him in America.