It all started when I decided to have a garage sale this coming weekend. I told Kelsey she could have a Bake Sale, too, if she wanted to. She did.
First, we cleaned out the garage.
We organized the things we wanted to sell (mostly Christmas ornaments I got at after-Christmas sales last year) and stacked boxes so the garage was clear.
I brought in a box of Gilbert Morris books I’ve been wanting to read. (We still have lots of things in boxes because we want to move to the country soon – like yesterday!) And I screamed! Something big ran out from under the box. I couldn’t tell if it was a big spider or what it was, but it sure moved fast.
We caught the creature and put it in our Creature Keeper, where Garrett examined it closely.
It was this little guy – a leopard gecko!
We kept him in the house for about an hour, so we could get a good look at him. Katie held him up so he could smile for the camera. Then we released him so he could go back outside and eat some more insects for us.
While cleaning the garage we found a box of clothes that we hadn’t seen in a long time. I let the little girls have it for “dress up”.
Then Katie made pizzas for all of us. She makes the best pizzas! All from scratch. We all love Katie’s pizza.
Then the pizza started disappearing.
One slice at a time.
Garrett practiced his photography skills.
Then Patrick found Abby’s new scarf.
And a Nerf Battle Axe.
He experimented with different looks.
Then we got busy making our garage sale signs.
The twins helped a lot with that.
Kelsey made lots of cookies, including chocolate chip and pumpkin chocolate chip, walnut chocolate oatmeal bars, pumpkin rolls and double decker fudge. She was busy baking all day long!
It paid off. She made $50!
I made somewhere between $30 and $40 on my garage sale.
We’re going to try again in 3 weeks. It will be closer to Christmas, and that will give time for Patrick’s Santa suit to arrive, so he can help advertise the sale in style!
This week I’m linking up with Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers and Homegrown Learners.
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
I love how the whole family got involved with the yard sale.
Blessings, Dawn
Any post that starts off with “It all started with…” is going to be amusing, and I was right.
Nerf weapons are the best, my boys swear by their Nerf Mace.