It is inevitable that in most neighborhoods you have garage sales starting in the spring, for others' to clean our their stuff, you to clean out yours, etc. However, enter the land of Suburbia, and you have a totally different picture of this: community sales, friends/neighbors who want to go in together for a garage sale (this I am perfectly fine with), the reminder mailings of the upcoming (upcoming meaning in over a month) community sales, falling upon the topic of community sales in a random mom's brunch conversation - of course which leads you to find out your community has a Facebook page that could have random comments/pictures of you or your kids, and of course Facebook posts advertising such garage sales. Whatever happened to the darn "Sale today" sign and balloons if you feel a little crazy!
So of course, I am going in with a friend and her garage sale - which I actually don't mind at all - as my folks would take forever to get their stuff ready so it's good they got their reminder mailing this past week!
It is really bittersweet because both my friend and I are getting rid of a lot of baby stuff. We both have girls. Our girls will in fact be in the same class together at a parochial school. We may also both be one and done. This is the hard part - here I have made it through almost 2 years of motherhood which is a huge feat and as hard as it has been, it is equally has hard as knowing I may not get to do that part, those ages, ever again.
So as part of my lovely, sweet, and twisted way of thinking - I figure watching Walking Dead while doing it will make it seem not so hard :)
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