First Fundraiser a Success!

We had our first fundraiser, a yard sale, today. There were so many donated items toward Micah's adoption from close friends, and even a few extra donations today! One woman in particular made me smile. Her name was Kathleen Serrano (I hope she doesn't mind I use her name), and she was just THRILLED that we were adopting a baby with special needs. She worked with special needs children at a local school and you could just tell she had a huge heart for them. I told her we started a puzzle fundraiser (will be explained more on next post), and that for $5 she could put her name on a puzzle piece and Micah would know who helped to bring him home. She put $10 in the can and was so excited to be helping him out. She asked if I was going to glue it all together and frame it for him and I said yes! She stayed and talked to me about Micah and the process for quite a while, and the funniest part was she didn't buy one thing from the yard sale. It was like she was led here just to share our stories with each other. What a wonderful lady!

Then, another family we know from church happened upon our yard sale, bought a couple things, and ended up taking Reece's Rainbow information for a family member who is looking to adopt. Special needs didn't seem to be an issue at all! What a wonderful day of sharing our story. I felt so truly blessed.

So with all the donated items, and some things we had to sell, we sold a total of $593.33 today. We still have about half of the items we started with, so we will most likely have one more sale before we donate the rest to Deseret Industries. What a very blessed day we had!

P.S. It was about 40 degrees all day today.