WooHoo... We Hit Our Goal!!!!

I am so happy to report that we went over our yard sale/ bake sale goal of $2,000, and our Grand Total Raised this Weekend was $2,450!!!!!!!!
Isn't that crazy? We are so thankful to all of the families that donated items for us to sell, to our volunteers that stood on their feet helping customers for hours, and to all of the lovely people that baked some amazing baked goods. There would have been NO POSSIBLE WAY we would have been able to pull this off without you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Yard Sale Update!!!!

$1400

I am Shocked and Amazed by the generosity of people that surround us. We made over $1400 the very first day of our 3 Day Yard Sale-a-Palooza!!! Our Goal was $2,000 for the whole weekend... and I was nervous writing that number down.

Some memorable moments from today include... having two complete strangers donate a total of $300 dollars... and as they handed me their money I think my heart skipped a beat. And, I also had the sweetest 5 year old donate his allowance money. I tried giving him change and he wouldn't accept it- how adorable is that- and how adorable is he? ;)
Sweet M* has already made his way into many of our family, friends and neighbors hearts. An amazing thing considering no one has had the privilege of meeting him yet.
An update on court... we were postponed. They believe it was due to a power outage, which if you read my last post is something pretty common in Ethiopia. Our next court date is March 30 (or the night of the 29th for us here in the US). We would greatly appreciate your prayers.
Now off to bed so I can get up again at 3:30am...

Yard Sale!!!

I have to admit I am so lazy that I have a whole lot of stuff for my yard sale this weekend... guess my laziness is paying off for once. But, I have not had a yard sale in 7 years. So, because I am a little rusty I am asking you for your yard sale tips. Especially because any money I make is going in my adoption fund- I need to do a good job. So, if you have any tips let me have 'em :)

And, if you are in my area and have some household items you want to get rid of I will be driving around collecting donations this Thursday and Friday.