Surprise Goodies from 'home'

Christmas this year for us has lasted months!

We have had one of the best Christmases ever for receiving Christmas cards and they continue to arrive until just a couple of weeks back....

And then we even had a Christmas parcel arrive 2 weeks ago too!  It was a box of surprise goodies from the Sunday School of our home church in Australia.

Parcel's from home are always great to receive and all the more when it is a collection of the unexpected!  This parcel was just amazing - there were hand towels embroided with Jesus Loves You, a water bottle with socks inside, a special pencil case with a spiritually encouraging message on the outside, hand made bookmarks by the kids, and of course a special Aussie food treat!!!!......Minties and Fantales!!!!!!!!!!! - with enough to share around with our friends here.

Special treats from home are always such a 'pick-me-up'.  To know that someone back home was thinking about you enough to take the time and spend the money to send a special 'with Jesus' love' package tells us that we are not forgotten - and not forgotten also assures us that they will be praying for us too.  It is such an encouragement.  It is also just fantastic to be sent somethings that we miss from home as well like those Minties and Fantales!

So I thought I would put on the blog some other things that we 'miss', so if anyone else is thinking of sending something and wonders what is best to send, you don't have to ask and ruin the surprise!!

- Vegemite (always at the top of the list!) - in the tubes

- Malted Milk powder

- TimTams (especially the dark chocolate or double choc ones)

- Organ Gluten Free products such as:

 Wildberry Dinosaur cookies

Breakfast Os with Quinoa or Wildberry

Multigrain crumbs with Quinoa

Multigrain crispbread with Quinoa

All purpose Pastry Mix

Savoury Biscuits with Rosemary

Gravy Mix

Wild Raspberry Fruit filled biscuits

Any Pasta

- Minties

- Massel stock Ultracubes (Chicken, Vegetable, Beef) the ones that come in a 105g box

- Arnotts Milk Arrowroot Biscuits

- Arnotts Malt-O Milk Biscuits

- Arnotts Chocolate Coated Teddy Bear Biscuits

- Fantales

- Freddo Frogs

- Macadamia nuts

- Herbal Essences shampoo/Conditioner - Classic Normal Hair Shampoo and Classic Normal Hair Conditioner (must be wrapped in glad-wrap and bubble wrap and put in a couple of snap-lock bags for packaging)