Thursday, October 28

Aaron returned home last night, and today we are fully in packing up the house and making an inventory of the remaining items. The girls are pros at this stage of our journey. We make lists and divide up the tasks.

Katherine began to count rolls of toilet paper and bottles of shampoo and bars of soap. Olivia tackled the inventory of the medicine box, noting expiration dates and sorting antifungals and antibiotics and pain relievers and snot medicine. Thankfully, we got a little bit of rain today. We were checking email with the satellite when the drizzle began, so Katherine grabbed the umbrella and held it over the BGAN unit so we could finish sending and receiving.

Before we came back to the village, we bought a bale of onions. Although we use onions almost every day, we still had plenty to give away. So, much of my time today was sharing onions with my neighbors in between times of pantry inventory and storing the food away in our rat proof window seats. We even had time to squeeze in a game of Tri-Ominos and some chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookies before bedtime, celebrating a good day of hard work.