First you need the items to sell...thank you so much to the following people who made considerable donations!
Linda and Len -who lovingly brought 100lbs of items from Indiana on the plane
Jan and Veryl -who cleared out their basement to find great items. The sinks and toilet were conversation starters for sure.
Yvette -with the electronics portion of the sale with multiple TVs and stereo
Missy and Benji -a car full of popular kids toys, kids bike and bags and bags of clothes
Brooke and Link -the fastest moving item! Mat and my Dad unloaded the train table from the truck and before they could get the bag of accessories out it was sold!
Stina and Gary -clothes, lamps, tables and most importantly loads of martini shakers ;)
Kristalyn and Joe -very nice high chair, jogging stroller and other great baby items
And then you need the man or woman power to make it all work... my parents came out for the sale and we couldn't have done it without them. It would have been two days of bedlam had it not been for them. The traffic flow was constant both days. Mat's parents helped with the clean up when they returned from their trip and we were able to spend some nice time all together after we closed up shop.
I think I can speak for all of us when I say we are sore and tired but it was such a huge sense of accomplishment to make so much money in a short period of time and get our house cleared out a bit for the baby.
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| Thank you to my Mom from Mat and my Dad |
This week we will be updating our dossier for the adoption for the third or fourth time. I know this sounds strange and it feels a little overwhelming but it needs to be done. Practically every piece of paper is date sensitive and our time frame is just to iffy to not have it done. If we didn't do it now and waited to find out- it could potentially delay the arrival of our baby coming home. And we just can't chance that.
Thank you again to everyone that helped us out! We look forward to moving forward and keeping you updated in our process.
Abby and Mat
