Thank you to those of you who purchased something from my first ever blog yard sale. All weekend long we’ve been decluttering our house. It’s a really good feeling. I read recently that if you want good things to enter your life then you need to make room for them. So that’s what we have been doing. Organizing. Throwing away. Selling. And whatever we don’t sell we are going to give away. The kids have been helping. Callie went through her clothes and came out with a pile. And Snowbaby gave me a piece of toilet paper. “MONEY!” she said.

I sold my laptop to a lady here locally which was kind of sad but I didn’t use it much in the BDH since we are on dialup (oh the horrors) and it was too fragile for the kids to use. 

Some of my readers have offered up donations for the virtual yard sale which is just amazing to me. My mom has fabric for sale. 5 pieces for $20. So does Amanda. Isn’t that nice of them?? And Amanda has offered to handknit either a scarf or hat for you if you make a donation of $20 for a scarf or $15 for a hat to the “take the kids to see a Broadway show” fund. What an amazing thing to do. I will never get over the fact that people offer to do this kind of stuff for my kids. It makes me cry just to talk about it.

I mentioned to Callie earlier that I was having a virtual yard sale on my “website.” She doesn’t really know much about this blog, just that I keep up a website where I talk about issues related to foster care. I told her that I was selling some of my things in order to raise some money so we can get tickets to the show. And that one person had just sent me some money without buying anything, telling me that they wanted the girls to experience what she had the first time she saw a show. And that someone else had purchased something from me for way more than it was worth, just because they wanted to do something nice for “someone who deserves it.”

Callie looked at me in shock.

“You mean people sent money for us? So we could see the show?

“Yeah. I don’t even know them. They just wanted to help and to be nice.”

“Oh my God. I didn’t know that people actually cared about kids who are in foster care.”

Thank you all for showing her that there are people who care very much. I can never say thank you to you enough.

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