LOVE

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
C.S. Lewis

Sale was a success!!!

What was to be a 3 day sale turned into just 2 days, due to some rain this morning. But in the last 2 days we were able to raise over $1700!! Sooo many items were donated and sooo many people came out in support of this sale. Thursday was pretty crazy and we were moving all day long but we were so thankful for the droves of people who came. Myself and Jeanne Smith were there the first day. There were a lot of people who read the article about Kelencia and wanted to hear our story about Jivenson and the Smith family. So many were moved to tears and to generosity. Some just stopped to give $ and didn't even take any items. Some came back with items they were going to take to a thrift store, for us to use in the sale instead. Some came back after purchasing items just to give more. A Haitian family stopped to talk with us and to hear the story, beautiful connections were made and the Smith's are one small step closer to having their financial needs met in this adoption.

We are so thankful for this opportunity and so thankful to the MANY people, some of who we don't even know, who donated A TON of items for this sale, to those who loaned us tables and signs to make this sale a success, to those who came to sweat and work the sale with me, to those who came shopping and to Tanya and Lenski who loaned us their garage, driveway and basement at an awesome, high traffic sale location! This was an incredible group effort:)
We feel blessed by God that we could be a part of this story and we will continue to share it whenever we can!
Thank you for being a part of this story too!

Hard

It was hard to write these words...I wept.
This is a sign for our garage sale tomorrow; raising money to help the Smith's get one small step closer to adopting their loved daughter Kelencia.
It's been hard lately, missing SonSon. I was good for a while and now I'm not. This sale was well timed...
I am excited to see what happens this week and to see the people who will walk up to this sale and give.