Whew. I'm so glad last week is over! We were so busy with 'projects' that I think I fell into bed every night with a huge headache.
It all started with Daddy's glorious suggestion that we have a garage sale. We decided that if we were going to have a garage sale, we better go big or go home. The first week in May is known around these parts as Garage Sale Week. Apparently people from all over come to Maple Grove for these garage sales; so we thought we better get involved in the action.
I started weeks (actually months) ago, by going through all of the girls' clothes from their first two years. I sorted and sorted and sorted. I gave two huge plastic bins of clothes to Auntie B knowing that Little V would look darling in anything I gave her. I also boxed up about 7 diaper boxes of clothes and gave them to Daddy's cousin who is expecting a girl in June.
Somehow I was still left with BOXES of clothes! Once again, I was sorting through the remainder. Nana came to help and we decided on prices for everything that was left.
Over the weeks we brought up stuff from the basement, pulled out stuff that was stored on our garage shelves and pretty soon we had a pretty good looking sale ready.
Last weekend Daddy and I really got everything put together so that I didn't have to stress out during the week. The poor girls had to hang out inside (the weather of course didn't cooperate). They were really confused about what we were doing. Finally Little Pie asked, "you doing a project mom?". Since then, every time we were in the garage, she would ask if I was done with my project yet.
Of course Daddy had to be out of town the week of the sale, so Nana and Papa came to help. And boy were they ever LIFE SAVERS! They showed up bright and early on Thursday morning. Papa stayed in the house and played with the girls while Nana and I were outside (in the FREEZING cold) waiting to make some big bucks. The girls would peek in on us to see how the project was going.
Nana stayed the night so that she could help me the next day. Daddy took the girls to ECFE (that was a real treat for both girls and Daddy!). Thankfully the day was much nicer so the girls could join us outside. We had a picnic lunch in between "customers". It turned out to be a pretty good day. It was just fun to be outside again and talk to the neighbors we haven't seen since last fall!
Overall the sale went well. We got rid of ALL the girls clothes (a friend of a friend expecting twin girls cleaned me out!). We got rid of a lot of stuff and only have a few boxes to donate. Even though I was really not looking forward to everything that's involved in a garage sale, I'm really glad we did it!
With one project down, we got going on project #2 on Saturday. (The girls are probably wondering why nice weather means we are always busy around the house!) Daddy stained the deck on Saturday so that we could finally get our lawn furniture out and start enjoying the nice weather (...when it comes back). All day Saturday, the girls were wondering when Daddy would be done with his project.
To cap off a very busy week and weekend, we had a very nice Mother's Day. We went to brunch with Nana, Papa, Uncle Drew, Gramcracker, Magra and Boompa. The girls were very good at brunch. I think Little Pie's favorite meal is now brunch; boy did she eat a lot of pancakes!
It is so special that the girls got to spend Mother's Day with not only their mother, but a grandmother and TWO great grandmothers!
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