The End of an Era

Well, today Richard and I cleaned out the guest room, the attic boxes, and part of the children's retreat as part of our summer purge. It was a very emotional day for me as I opened the boxes of baby clothes, went through each one, touched all the cute little outfits again, and realized once more that there will be no more babies for us. I cried over all of that, plus the fact that my "babies" are now running through the house, reading, losing teeth, and arguing with each other! And then began the frustration of deciding what to keep as heirlooms, what to give away, what to throw away, what to donate, and what to sell at a garage sale in a few weeks (isn't it terrible that I've got enough stuff to do all five of those!?!?!?). Anyway, I think I made the right decisions - only time will tell, I guess. But, our guest room is clean except for the garage sale stuff that is on one side of the room, and the stuff we are giving to relatives. And, our van is FULL of stuff to take to the community charity - some baby stuff, some of our stuff.

My mom is currently on her cruise, but we plan to ask her when she gets back if we can use her driveway two weekends from now to sell our wares. Her area draws a huge crowd, whereas our neighborhood is not very good for garage sales. Plus, our HOA will only allow us to have one as an entire community - no single garage sales - we are limited to two pre-set dates per year as determined by the HOA. So, we don't want to wait until the first weekend in October to reclaim our home, so we may haul our stuff to my mom's to sell. I've also got a couple of things we're going to sell on eBay, just to try it out for the first time. We'll see how that goes.