Garage Sale Saturday & Mailbox Stalking pays off!!

WOW! What a whirlwind weekend! We had our big fundraiser garage sale on Saturday! It was big and really great! Thanks to my boss, I took Friday off to prepare. This is the craziness on Friday.....

So I worked on it all day Friday and then got up at 6:15 Saturday morning. There were people already pulling up at 6:30!! Not. even. kidding!
You could tell they were the professional garage sale type. They would slow down, throw it in park, jump out, run through like a tornado and then back in their cars and quickly peel out. I think Clint was able to slow one guy down and asked him what he was looking for. He said, "jewelry". I'm thinking....ok, I've got a "Troy" watch from High School Musical in there for a $1 you can have! HA. That was Laynie's old watch of course!!

We had a great turnout and didn't close up until 3:00! We made $1448.83! Woot wooot! We have some stuff left over, but for the most part..everything is GONE! :)

I had some AMAZING help on Friday and Saturday! My sweet friends from our Life Group helped bake cookies and muffins for our bake sale. My wonderful friend, and next door neighbor, Kerri helped me organize and set up on Friday and then came and worked the WHOLE day on Saturday! Her little kiddos helped too! I couldn't have done it without them! My hubby was gone at a baseball tournament, so it would've been just me!! So I was super grateful to have my wonderful friends to help! I am blessed!

Here's little Caroline trying out the picnic basket! She's so dang cute! Not for sale though! ;)

In other wonderful news, my mailbox stalking has paid off!!! On Saturday we received our CIS approval letter!!!!! I was SUPER excited.

Yesterday I got all the dossier paperwork out and starting checking stuff off the list! It feels so good to be able to get this done! This paperwork phase has been a little nerve racking!


It was a super fabulous weekend and I am excited to get the dossier out this week. Also, looking forward to our dinner and silent auction this Saturday. Busy, busy!!

One more thing...

Just one more thing about my last post... Funky funk funk! I'm not a writer. Actually in school I think I was still misspelling stuff way into high school..and beyond. So that lead me to dislike writing, well.. for anyone other then myself at least!

Now here I am, trying to use this blog to keep everyone informed about our adoption, trying to express my feelings so that I will never forget this time, and at the same time trying to keep people interested in reading my blog.

HOLY COW that's a lot! :)

I do wish I could blog and write like my friend Jennifer, but I am just accepting that it's not my gift. I try to say things that are on my mind and that are meaningful to me.

Today is just a bad day.
Tomorrow will be better.
I'll post a more uplifting one tomorrow.
i hope.

Funky Funk Funk!

So in light of the most recent post on the adoption.state.gov website, I have ordered these two books from Amazon.

If you have a minute, listen to the "Sun Stand Still" msg from my church, Life Church.tv. HERE
It's a wonderful message about praying for the things you feel are impossible for God.

I feel like right now this news about Ethiopia and adoptions is my Sun Stand Still moment. My "impossible" prayer.
In fact, I feel like being a Mom is my "Sun Stand Still" prayer, because right now that is what feels like my impossible prayer.

Crazy, right?

Crazy that babies are born every day...here and all around the world...with no family to love and care for them, no home to call their own, etc....
and yet, here we are just waiting...wondering....praying that we will soon be Mommy and Daddy to a sweet baby.

Today i'm in a funk. Maybe it's this new announcement, maybe it's that i'm PMS'ing (booooo), maybe i'm just tired and this week has got me run down. Whatever it is..it stinks!

I've said many prayers this morning. Praying for understanding, strength, hope, wisdom, courage, and praying my "Sun Stand Still" prayer to be a Mom.

New Etsy Items

This past weekend (actually Thursday-Sunday) I achieved a pretty decent trifecta. My boss, husband and step-kids were all gone! Yip, that's right...it was just little'ol me (and Penny too!). I was sad to have my sweet hubby gone, but I used my time wisely! I worked on some Etsy store items and did some thrift store shopping with Jennifer...
I finally made a birthday hat. I will do a boy one soon...but for now....just the girly one.
I also finally got around to doing some bibs. Something so simple, but I have put it off for a long time! I think they are pretty cute!
And I did a sweet birthday girl shirt. I had already done a birthday boy one, but now I have both! This one was for my sweet friend Shalayn's little birthday girl!

So all-in-all it was a productive 4 days. The weather was wonderful and my house was clean for a whole 4 days straight...it was nice.
Now back to reality and getting ready for our BIG garage sale this weekend!!!
If you live close, come by!! It's Saturday from 7am-1pm (roughly). We are having a bake sale too!
If you need my address, just comment me!

On the adoption front:
We sent in the paperwork that USCIS needed in order to process our I600A. I am praying that it's what they need to approve us! Back to mailbox stalking!