Oh man! How happy am I!

So, for a little backstory, almost a year ago now the apartment building I was living in burned down and my husband and I lost everything. Most of the things you own are just things, replaceable and not that big of a deal. But my Harry Potter books were included in that small bunch of things I was rather bummed about. Harry Potter was basically a daily thing in my life. Every summer I would read through the books again and again, and the audio books were almost the only thing I listened to on my iPod. Harry Potter took me through a bunch of life landmarks and had a pretty big impact on my weird growing pain early teen years. When the fire happened that all stopped.

I owned 6/7 of the main books and all 3 of the smaller ones. I only started buying my own after 4, so the first ones were a gap in my collection. Over birthdays and christmas' I had been gifted the first 3, and was 1 off from being able to finally begin a project I've been wanting to do for a while - harvesting the signatures from the hardcovers and completely rebinding them in leather myself (I took bookbinding in university and it was easily my best class) so when I lost my collection, it was a pretty huge bummer.

When the HP exchange came along it wasn't much of a question on doing it or not. I noted that I would love to start collecting the hardcover books again towards my project, and noted a couple other things I liked, but day 1 my santa pulled by info and had it marked as shipped right away. I was super happy when I saw she was shipping through Amazon. We're moving to another city right now, back to our hometown to we have the support of our familys because my husbands contract at work is up and isn't being renewed. Knowing I have a little Harry Potter back in my life is really fortifying for me. :) Even though we're in yet another tough spot in life, I'll get through it. I have my HP.

Thank you so much Paulina! This means a great deal to me. :)