Going Crazy - Know the Way?

Resale was an amazing success! It was busy, as usual, but I always have so much fun. Friday night we topped $10,000, and overall we made more than $30,000! It's the first time since I have been doing resale that we made over $30,000. We used a new process for reconciliation purposes which took better advantage of technology, but unfortunately kept us there later than usual Saturday afternoon, but we got some good data from it. Ultimately, I would love to get laptops and scanners for all the cashiers to make the data collection automatic, but I need to put a proposal together and try to get some fund-raising going for that.

I have already streamlined the change making process left by my predecessor significantly, so we are now ready to progress further. I felt a lot less stress in the money room this weekend than I had before. I even had time to chat for a bit with a former co-worker and see how her daughter, who she adopted from China, is doing, and how the quest for Mei-Mei (little sister) is progressing; and with oaken_glen for a bit, who was there handing out flyers for her new big project (see her LJ for details - I really hope it helped!)

My kids did pretty well, too. They got a bunch of new Thomas trains, a Winnie the Pooh bike, a brand new Aquadoodle (for $5!) two new versions of Leap Pad, a couple of fire trucks (C asked for a red fire truck, out of the blue, a couple of days ago, and I was so happy he said something I could understand that I had to get him two!) and a bunch of clothes. I got 7, count 'em, 7 Thomas shirts, since every day when I ask C what he wants to wear he says, "Choo-choo." Oh, and I got them a second Cozy Coupe. At last resale I only bought one, figuring they needed to share, and they fight over it CONSTANTLY. Then, someone was selling one this resale for only $4.50, so I snatched it right up. Have I mentioned I am on the committee, so we get to shop for a half hour before everyone else? This means we get lots of the best deals! I even got two baby jails for friends. Unfortunately, there were no sand and water tables (sorry staceyspins) and no sprinkler games, which were my other two quests.

I got home yesterday and crashed for a couple of hours, and went to bed with the kids.

Today we went roller skating with our friend Helena, my god-daughter Brya, and Helena's cousin, Jackie. Unfortunately they didn't stay long after Jackie hurt her ankle, but we had a blast. The kids did great, and A gets her roller skating talent from her Mom. While she was going around with Daddy, he kept her from falling, but when she switched to me, I let her fall (she has to learn) which she didn't like at first, but when I fell with her, and explainer to her that everyone falls and it is fun, she decided it was OK. I kept giving her the option to take a rest or keep trying, and she kept wanting to roller skate! C skated quite a bit, too, and even wanted to wear his roller-skates home! But he also enjoyed the huge fun zone they have, with slides and climbing places. (Although we could have used some help from veggiejunkie to get them up the ladders!)

Then this afternoon, while the twins napped, I crashed again. Unfortunately, all the running around this weekend has made my cold worse, and now I am coughing quite a bit. (I am trying the Mucinex, spinpsychology, but so far it's not helping much.) Now I am watching a Wings game on TV - the first one I have managed to catch all year.  Unfortunately they started off with 6 wins and only one loss, but they have lost 4 out of their last 5 games. They are still in second place, but the team they are facing tonight has the league's best goalie, which they currently have the worst, so I am not really sure this will be a good game to watch... But we shall see. They are at home, so that could help. Their fans are terrific!

So, Tuesday night is our main meeting for FSMOM. Our guests are two massage techs who will be giving us free massages. Perfect timing, since we all just worked so hard at resale. We will also be printing the checks out for the sellers, and I should get a pretty nice one. Some of the stuff I sold was for a friend, but I also sold some of my own large equipment, too, in the hopes that IF we ever decide to have another one, we will only get one, so we won't need two of everything. So we got rid of one high chair, the bouncy seats, a couple of tunnels, a box of toys, and some feeding equipment, plus a bunch of clothes. I have more to tag and get rid of... I will probably keep tagging with resale tags, and put everything out at the yard sale that unicornpearlz and I are doing on June 14th. That way, anything I don't get rid of at the yard sale, I can just bring to fall resale. Plus, my prices can be flexible, since at resale I only get 80% of the tagged price, so at yard sale I can take 20% off the marked price if someone wants to haggle, and get the same amount of money I would get if I sold it at resale...

Right now, C has come over and is sitting in Daddy's lap, and Daddy is explaining lacrosse to him... C thinks it is a soccer game. Too cute!

Tomorrow I get my braces on. I better go make a bowl of popcorn... although now I have good tips on how to sneak popcorn with braces!! :)