The above subject is the title of my Craigslist ad. Thank you, Christine, for your sweet comment and suggestion I let people know more info about the garage sale tomorrow. For items we are selling and our address, go to here: http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/gms/1903206886.html.
Have any of you heard Archie Campbell's rendition of Rindercella? Look it up on youtube - it is fantastic! He recites the story of Cinderella switching the beginning of words with each other, like she slopped her dripper (instead of dropped her slipper). Well, one of the lines is that she cat down and shried (instead of sat down and cried). All that to say, when we opened a box to pack it better and I saw the lamp - the one that my Grandmother had painted for me and my mom had painted for my daughter and that I had just commented to Nicole and her friend that I was looking forward to painting it for my granddaughter - broken .... I cat down and shried. It was a ceramic girl, and my grandma had painted it to match my bedspread and my hair and my eyes, and my mom had painted it to match Nicole's bedspread and her hair and her eyes...but now it is pretty shattered. I think the whole weight of letting things go came down on me at that moment. I thought I was all good with letting everything go - hold everything loosely - but I think I'm finding it harder than I had thought it would be! A good but hard lesson. I feel better now - much better. I feel better for releasing the emotions, and better for releasing the holding on I didn't even realize I was doing, and I must confess, better because my sweet husband is going to gently pack the shattered pieces and see if we can have it fixed some day (so did I really let go?). :-) We have various friends taking the trampoline, the boys' beds, the piano, the ping-pong table, and the lawn mower until we get back, so we haven't had to sell or pay for storage for those things! So please pray tomorrow we will sell what's left (or find more friends to store anything we have left over after the sale)! :-) I just want to say I'm so appreciative of all the support and encouragement we've received from so many of you! You ROCK!
Have any of you heard Archie Campbell's rendition of Rindercella? Look it up on youtube - it is fantastic! He recites the story of Cinderella switching the beginning of words with each other, like she slopped her dripper (instead of dropped her slipper). Well, one of the lines is that she cat down and shried (instead of sat down and cried). All that to say, when we opened a box to pack it better and I saw the lamp - the one that my Grandmother had painted for me and my mom had painted for my daughter and that I had just commented to Nicole and her friend that I was looking forward to painting it for my granddaughter - broken .... I cat down and shried. It was a ceramic girl, and my grandma had painted it to match my bedspread and my hair and my eyes, and my mom had painted it to match Nicole's bedspread and her hair and her eyes...but now it is pretty shattered. I think the whole weight of letting things go came down on me at that moment. I thought I was all good with letting everything go - hold everything loosely - but I think I'm finding it harder than I had thought it would be! A good but hard lesson. I feel better now - much better. I feel better for releasing the emotions, and better for releasing the holding on I didn't even realize I was doing, and I must confess, better because my sweet husband is going to gently pack the shattered pieces and see if we can have it fixed some day (so did I really let go?). :-) We have various friends taking the trampoline, the boys' beds, the piano, the ping-pong table, and the lawn mower until we get back, so we haven't had to sell or pay for storage for those things! So please pray tomorrow we will sell what's left (or find more friends to store anything we have left over after the sale)! :-) I just want to say I'm so appreciative of all the support and encouragement we've received from so many of you! You ROCK!
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