I recently told someone that I am convinced that God is clearest in the unexpected places. This was all the more evident this past weekend. We had our first garage sale and were able to raise ~$700. We pulled up at 6:00 AM and before we had the second box on the lawn there was someone coming to look at what we had. At 2:00 PM we closed shop and literally had people sifting through the boxes as we were loading stuff back in the garage. The most expensive thing we sold was $40, but on average we were selling stuff for a buck or two. Between the first garage sale, donations and the money we've raised selling stuff on Craigslist we've raised the first 10% of our $20,000. With that I am beside myself. Our family, co-workers and friends have been so encouraging and inspiring. We've had boxes of stuff donated, money donated and help coordinating every aspect of the garage sale. All we can say is thank you. Everyone has been amazing and God has been incredibly faithful.
We will be having another garage sale coming up in the next month or so, different location (TBD), lot's more clothes, old DVD's/VHS's, McDonald's toys, etc... If you have items to donate and missed this last garage sale please let us know and we will do whatever we need to connect the dots.
We go forward,
Chris, Nicole, Caden & Eli
Reasons to be excited...
- Today America World receieved our signed contract and first program deposit. We now get matched with a family coordinator and begin assembling our dossier/do our home study. We are so appreciative for those who have asked us questions, for those who have shared in our excitement, for those who have shared their adoption stories with us and for those who have either partnered with us financially or our partnering with us in volunteering their time/energy. We are surrounded by people who amaze us.
- Saturday is our first big garage sale. We are very excited to see what happens this weekend.
- Nicole just brought me a Starbucks brownie at work. My wife rocks.
- There are a million more reasons to be excited, but that's what tomorrow's for, eh?
Chris
P.S. I always thought it a little ridiculous when you read people's adoption blogs they often talk about there overwhelming compulsion to be constantly checking their email/phone/mailbox. I thought life moves, you aren't going to get anything sooner just because you check it a million times. Unfortunately I must confess I have fallen into the same trap. I have checked our email for further correspondence from our coordinator about 35 times since this morning when I know she received our documents. My apologies to all whom I have judged and I am going to deny the temptation to constantly monitor my email, we've got plenty of time for that.
As many of you know, our first fund-raiser/way to raise money for the adoption is here. Well, technically it's Saturday. Our place has never looked so clean what with the extreme spring cleaning we have been doing over the past two weeks. Thank you to all those who have donated and to those who are still digging in their garage thank you in advance. Please bring in any donated items as soon as possible so that we can coordinate delivery to the destination garage. We do have more garage sales being held in the next couple weeks so if you miss this one don't resign that box of forgotten McDonald's toys to collecting dust in your garage. Please bring them. If it's not this garage sale we'll work it into the next one.
Details:
May 8th, 2010
7:00AM - 2:00PM
14320 Cabell
Bellflower, CA 90707
What we're selling: A whole lot of awesome stuff. Toys, clothes (both adult and kids), books, DVD's, tools, couches, etc...
Any questions my cell is (714) 658-0679
Redeeming one thing at a time,
Chris, Nicole, Caden & Eli
