Got books?

This weekend was a $1,300 success! Kyle happily watched his books, CDs, and childhood G.I. Joe and Star Wars toys leave our garage. He'd thank me for helping throughout the weekend and I'd thank him for his help (since I didn't really do anything) and he'd say, "you mean for keeping all my stuff all these years?" Hey, if it helps get our little one home, then it was all perfect timing, even if he did have to keep some of it for over 30 years for this perfect moment. :)
We still have sooooooo many books left. This is what our garage looks like right now...(minus CDs)

 Thanks for putting up the lights Chris, they were perfect for our sale!!

 

As comfy as it looks (I could spend all day and night out there reading if I didn't have other responsibilities), it's a little overwhelming since we don't know what we're going to do with it all. We're considering doing another sale black friday weekend, but haven't decided yet. I've also posted it all on craigslist and am going to email a book reseller that came and bought a bunch this weekend to see if he or anyone he knows would like it all for a deal. We have some GREAT stuff left and are hoping to just get it out of there.
Kyle still also has a few hundred CDs left we're going to see if we can sell to Amazon. And a fellow toy nerd came by this weekend and told Kyle about the GIJoeCon that happens to take place in Dallas in 2014 (50th year!), so we're definitely going to look into getting a booth to sell all his little Joe guys. This guy picked 5 or 6 guys out and offered Kyle $20 for them when Kyle would have given them up for $2. Maybe we can fund the whole rest of the adoption with these plastic people. I'm going to be living with a G.I. Joe nerd for the next six months--I can't even begin to explain how excited Kyle is to get to research (play with) all his toys.
We had a lot of fun, and had our awesome friends over Friday night for a kick off party. They were as generous as ever. I know there was some buying just to help us out, but we also have some serious book and music fans for friends, so I think they enjoyed going through everything. Right, friends?! ;)

I emailed our social worker last week and she never replied so I sent a follow up email today and after a few explanations of why we've been put off for other families I THINK she's agreed to have ours written up next. Which supposedly means we'll have it to look over this week. Pray that happens. It stinks that this is just the first step and we're already having to wait longer than promised. I don't know how I'm going to handle the waiting when we're matched with our child! I might have to get into G.I. Joes to keep myself busy.