Started packing!!

yes, i may be getting ahead of myself but i can't help it.
i'm trying to make the load home as light and as convenient as possible. all the things percy has grown out of and the cheaper russian toys, plus her play mat and bouncer we are donating to the international womens club of kiev abandoned babies program. when i read about these poor bubs it nearly broke my heart. these babies live at local hospitals because there is nowhere else for them to go. often their mothers are drug addicts, hiv infected, homeless or all these things. they deserve some nice clothes and toys. it is possible to visit the babies and play with them. i would have done this but i didn't learn about them until just before i went to holland for 3 weeks and now it is too late. plus i probably would have cried and cried and cried and wanted to bring them all home with me. it makes me shiver to think 'what ifs' about percy being in a similar situation.

anything that we have worn out i'm chucking. plus there was a number of shirts of mine that were in a pile at home to go in the vinnies bin but accidently got packed instead. i'll leave them here too.

i'm hoping we can leave one, maybe two bags at the left luggage service in frankfurt airport. this means we won't have to lug them to paris and london and back to frankfurt with us. which is important because our flight from paris to london is with easyjet and apparently they really sting you for excess baggage. i'm sure we can live those nine days out of one suitcase for us and the carry-on wheelie case we use for percy.

so i've got one bag packed already and am plotting how best to do the others.
am i counting down the days?! well, as i said to alison- "only the hours!"