Purging and Yard Sales

Our church had a yard sale to benefit the quizzing team.  They are going to California in July for finals and they need close to $1000 per person.  They have been doing different types of fundraisers throughout the spring and early summer, the latest one, a huge yard sale.

I don't usually do yard sales because I don't feel like we have good enough stuff to sell and most of the time I would rather just give my stuff away, however when I heard about this one I started going through my whole house just to see what things we could donate to it.

I ended up having a car full of stuff, old books, kids clothes, clothes that no longer fits me, lots of  toys that were in great condition and kids books.  I'm happy to say most of our stuff sold on the very first day and it made the team close to $100!!! Not bad!!

Of course the thing I liked the best about it was purging my house of all this extra stuff.  Especially the kids' rooms and the basement! It is a great start to my home organizing summer!

Summer Update

You know it's been too long since I've posted anything on my blog when the whole interface looks different... :) Here we are on the third week of June already!
The kids and I are enjoying our summer vacation, I have all of my planning done, not only for Dampf Homeschool but for our Co op as well.  Everything has been printed, bound and put away in the kids' workboxes.  I have all the books I need for next year for both kids and for the co op!

A10 is done with ballet, the recital was wonderful! I'll have to post post some pics of the rehearsal soon.  She also participated in an Art Camp last week.  They got to do an art project everyday and she really enjoyed herself.

The boy has been playing with all his little friends, riding his bike, his scooter and roller blades! We have been doing the Library's Summer reading program, so we are keeping up with that during the summer.  I still have to get A10 to practice a bit more math!

I already handed in my portfolio to the local school office and handed in the kids' "registration" to homeschool next fall.  Next month A10 will be going to GreenWood Hills camp!! X7 is still a bit too young.

SO now for the rest of the summer I am going to, once again work on my home.  Organizing, clearing, throwing out... all that fun stuff!  I will be posting my planning post for both kids soon.  I always look forward to that post!! It is my favorite part of homeschooling! ha ha!!