Today, while I was out with the youth group, Bill and Karina discovered a great yard sale in our neighborhood. The lady had lost 4 of her 6 day care kids, and was cleaning out. When I got home, I went over there, and here is what I got:
A huge tub of regular Legos
An even bigger tub of Lego Duplo blocks (larger, for little kids)
Two gallon baggies of kitchen play food and dishes
A box of imitation Lincoln Logs
A Spiderman frisbee and pinata (Bill wanted them for Colin but I think I will end up using the pinata at the youth's Halloween Party. I don't see Colin carrying it home on the plane!)
I got it all for only $10!! The one tub of Legos alone would be more than that it a store, and this tub had more than what comes in those tubs! I am so excited--I looooove Legos, and even though she can't use them til she's older, I think Karina will like them, too.
The Duplo are for Christmas, as are the Lincoln-esque Logs, and probably the kitchen stuff, too. With her birthday falling the day after Christmas, I have got to stock up when I can! I've got quite a stash going in my closet now.
The other cool thing that happened today was that Bill and our friend Cali put up some paneling on our porch. The porch was installed by the previous homeowners (or someone before them) and it has nails sticking out all around the bottom part. We had just put up some exterior fabric for aesthetic purposes, but it's no good for protecting rambunctious children from falling through it and being stabbed by nails. So now we've got this beautiful white beadboard up that is going to be even better when he puts up the rest of the trim. I promise to share pictures.
The final thing that was accomplished was that I dug through our (overflowing) shed and found a bunch of my teaching stash picture books. I have really been wanting to go through them for Karina and to hopefully find some to donate to the group that helped us get Karina's speech evaluated. (If you remember, if I mentioned it, the first place we had her evaluated was in downtown and the building had conference rooms with some toys and books for little ones to play with, but they were all beat up and just a mess. So I wanted to give them at least some newer books for the kids)
Phew. It was a busy, busy day! Tomorrow is another one!
1 comments:
You are so sweet to donate those books where they can be put to good use.
Having purchased those same toys at full price, I can truly appreciate how much of a deal you got at the garage sale! AWESOME!
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