As David and I talked about what fundraisers we would do when we set out on this journey, one of the obvious ones was a yard sale. I knew we had stuff that could be sold, but to be honest I knew we didn't have enough to make it worth it. AND, I have only done one yard sale in my entire life and that was before we moved into our current house. Then came the help. Friends started donating items and their neighbors donated items and friends offered tables and help. Before long we had a small store in our garage. To say I was overwhelmed by the donations is a understatement. I enlisted the help of my sweet aunt and uncle from Kentucky and last Thursday I sat out to organize all the stuff. My amazing friend Lindsey came over and helped me on Thursday and my aunt and uncle got into town around lunchtime. The sale started on Friday and my mom and aunt were there to help me along with my friend Lindsey. I could not have done it without them!! I could not believe the amount of people coming. All day long there was a steady steam of people. By the end of Friday we had made about $650. Already WAY MORE than what I expected.
Here is the sign that was at the entrance to our subdivision. I knew the sign was important, so I spent a lot of time on this thing...
On Saturday Hannah wanted to set up a lemonade stand. So, she and David made lemonade on Saturday morning and here she is at her table.
Here is a glimpse of what my front yard looked like. This picture was taken on Saturday morning, so $650 had already been taken.
By the end of Saturday we had made $1400. CAN.YOU.EVEN.BELIEVE.THAT???? God totally showed up and I can tell you multiple stories of people just stopping by and not even buying anything, but giving money. Or the young lady who bought a few items and then realized it was an adoption yardsale and turned around and gave me all the change she had in her purse. It was a lot of hard work, but the blessing (and I'm not even talking about money) that came from it was more than worth it.
Thank you to all our friends who donated something, stopped by, helped and prayed for our weekend. We could not have done it without you!!!
Here is me and Hannah in our Africa shirts. I ordered these from Dolka Pots which is a local boutique that sponsors adoptive families every quarter. They were fabulous and I will for sure be getting more stuff from them.
For an update: We just had our last homestudy visit on Tuesday night and all the paperwork for that has been turned in. So, we will wait for our social worker to write that up and send it to us for review. Once we are OK with it, she will send it to our agency for approval. So, hopefully that part is close to being done. David and I have some online training we need to complete, so this weekend is going to spent doing a lot of that. We are still gathering documents for our dossier, but are close.
Our next fundraiser is going to be cookbooks, so if you have any recipes you would like to share, please send them our way. We would love it!!
Thanks for your continued prayers!! We are for sure feeling them!!
