Mind you, this was my official admission that our family is just fine the way it is. I have known this for awhile, but it has been hard letting go of those little girl things, that symbolize my little girl is growing up and there will be no more babies in the house. Over the past couple of years I have slowly been giving away or selling baby items to friends, but this was the proverbial final nail in the coffin.
I was motivated, and I got all of those little girl clothes tagged. They were already pretty sorted by size, so that helped...but holy cow, was there a lot of stuff in that room! I knew Lucy had a lot of clothes, but didn't realize it was that much. Wow. Also all those baby toys that have been packed away for awhile...it was a lot of work! But we got it all out to the garage and after Lucy's dentist appointment early Saturday morning, we opened for business.
It went well, and I had a great little helper and saleslady. :) There was only one instance of wanting to keep something of hers that was up for sale, which happened to be a large pink stuffed Pegasus given to her by her cousin H. I couldn't complain. It was a hot day, and she was outside with me for most of it. When we didn't have customers she played with her stuffed animals and created artwork like this:
We got rid of a lot of clothes at the sale, but it was still only about half of it. A friend of Husband's came over later in the evening and collected much of the rest, which was fantastic. She brought over her 4-month-old daughter, who I got to hold while her mom shopped. She also brought over her bulldog Tater Tot, and he and Buddy completely wore each other out wrestling and chasing.
This morning, I went through what was left and pulled out a few items for other little girls I know (so look out, some of you have some things coming!), and bagged the rest for Goodwill. We dropped off a car full, including some household and other items we had leftover, and then went to Target to buy Lucy a new booster seat, since we sold both of her convertible carseats at the sale. It felt so good to purge a lot of this stuff, and gain some storage space back! Not to mention, Mom and Dad, you won't be surrounded by diaper boxes and plastic bins when you stay over next time!
Today was so stinking hot and humid with a heat advisory, so after our errands we didn't do much but watch movies in the air conditioning. This evening, however, we did get outside for a little bit to let Lucy run in the sprinkler. Tell me these images don't say "SUMMER!"
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