Adoption: Garage Sale

 Saturday was our garage sale, it was actually our neighborhood garage sale and after living here for 3 years it was finally time to participate and what a better time then while we are trying to raise money for our future adoption!

We basically priced everything to go...we didn't want much left over. We had a lot from my mom, my aunt and matt's mom. So needless to say we had enough stuff on our own so add in 3 other families "treasures" our garage would be bursting at the seams if we didn't sell most of it.

They were calling for rain all weekend and we were a little nervous because there was no way we could fit everything in our garage with enough room for people to browse the tables and boxes for goodies. What do you know, God shined his beautiful light via the sun and made it a BEAUTIFUL morning!

My mom came over to help with the Lydia bug, she took her on a walk around the neighborhood, picked her up a cute little tikes car for $5, planted flowers, and ate a blueberry muffin. Thank goodness for moms!!

We made almost $300 to put towards our adoption and we only have a couple large items that we will save for our fall garage sale and a few knick knack things that we will either pass along to another sale or just box it up and donate it to Goodwill.

Now for the best part of this whole day:


So not only did God bless us with sunshine but with the joy of meeting another Adopting family!! We hung a sign at our sale letting people know that all the money raised was going towards our Ethiopian adoption. Through that sign we met a family that lives a few neighborhoods over that is adopting as well. They actually have a daughter waiting for them in Korea. They were taken by this sweet one on their agencies waiting child list and are trying to scurry around getting paperwork finalized and money put together. HOW FUN?!?! I was so scatter brained at the moment because we had so many people standing around waiting to pay or asking questions that I almost didn't give them my phone number but then like the crazy person I am I chased after them down the street holding up my pants and yelling for them. (good mental picture huh!) BUT they didn't think I was crazy, they love that I was a stalker too and I gave them my phone number and we will hopefully have some good things to donate to their sale and become a support system in our little community, a safe haven for an adopting mamma and daddy.

So that is our garage sale story and I only took 1 picture.... FAIL but it's a cute one.




Pay the Baby!