So I've been decluttering for a few months in preparation for our move and we finally had our garage sale last weekend. My friend had told me what it would be like but I was still totally shocked. People started arriving at 4:30 am and we were done by 9:00 am. At one point, there were so many people there at once that we couldn't pay attention to them all and some stuff walked off. Fortunately it wasn't anything worth much. We never even got to unpack all of the boxes and bags, people just rummaged through them in the middle of the driveway.
We ended up making $422 from the garage sale, then $85 later in the day from Craigslist and the pawn shop for a total of $507. Yay for us. Right after the sale, we took a bunch of stuff to the women's shelter and other stuff to Goodwill. We still have almost all of the books left since they're all in English and everyone who came to the sale spoke Spanish. I'm just going to Freecycle them this weekend. We also have the CDs and DVDs to deal with. No one was interested in them at the sale. I'm going to try them on Craigslist but if I don't get any hits in a couple of weeks, then I'll just Freecycle them. I basically just want to be rid of them at this point. The only other thing left is some costume jewelry. I never got a chance to put it out at the sale since things were so crazy and I didn't want it to get lost in the midst of everything. My goal is to have everything out of here by the time I leave for Montana in July.
Yesterday, we got back from our road trip to San Antonio and Killeen. It was fun but exhausting. We got to visit with family and friends plus go to some fun places like the zoo and the Children's Museum. We also went to the San Marcos outlets. It wasn't in our original plan but my friend told me about them and even though we didn't actually need anything, we went anyway. Our baby will be showered with plenty of hand-me-downs but I did want her to have some new clothes all her own when she joins our family. So I bought her a few outfits in each size through 18 months. Then of course I worried that I bought all these girly clothes and somehow it would turn out to be a boy but I had another ultrasound today and the tech agreed that it was a girl so I felt better. I was planning not to buy anything for the new baby but I was having such a hard time preparing for her since I can't decorate a nursery or anything like that so buying her some clothes was my only way of getting ready for her and now I think I got it all out of my system. I know that Brian really wanted her to have some things of her own too because he has a thing about hand-me-downs. I made sure that several of the outfits had something about Daddy on them since he won't be around those first few months but I can take pictures of her and email them to him everyday.
It was good to get rid of all our excess stuff to make room for our little girl. I'm still not sure Julian what Julian thinks when we talk about the baby but he realizes that something is going on and he sees that my stomach is getting huge. He pokes my stomach and says baby but we'll see what he thinks when there's a a real baby. I see him making all these connections lately with his 2 year old mind and it's awesome but I still don't know how much he understands when we tell him things.
After traveling so much this last week, I'm glad that Julian and I will be flying to Washington instead of driving. Ten hours in a car is a long time when you're pregnant and have an active toddler. Fortunately, Brian did most of the driving and I could rest a little or catch up on blog-reading with my phone (or feed Julian snacks constantly).
I'm happy to be home again and even happy to get back to packing and my to-do list. I just want to get everything finished and be finally done with it all so I can relax and get ready to meet my baby.
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