Garage Sale

Last Saturday we had our BIG garage sale.  It was completely exhausting--we got about three hours of sleep the night before, and the sale lasted six hours.  By the end we were both sunburned and barely functioning (hauling the left overs back into the garage felt like the hardest thing I'd ever done in my life), but it was totally worth it because we made $750!  A few sweet people saw our ad on CraigsList and came to the sale because they wanted to support our adoption.  One lady came to the sale just to give us a donation--she didn't even buy anything!  


We now have enough money to pay our agency's application fee; the next step is raising the money for our home study and dossier fees.  It's amazing that we've made so much progress in such a short amount of time!  We are planning on going to the bank tomorrow to sign all of our application documents and have them notarized, and then we will head to the post office to mail everything off.  Hopefully we will learn whether or not we've been accepted by our agency in the next week or two--we are on our way!

Our living room the night before the sale; our garage was also completely full.

We had tons of clothes to sell--two clothing racks full in addition to these bags.

Our puppies weren't sure what to think!  Mops camped out on this bag for several hours while I priced stuff.

My friend Rachel's husband, Matt, made this sign for us.  It was a great conversation starter! 

The stack of documents we're mailing to our agency tomorrow!