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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Trade #3 - Bigger and Better

So far, we've gone from two pink paperclips to fancy flip flops, and now Thomas the Train.

The next item up for bartering is a Thomas the Train reversible play table with 60 trains and both the city and the mountain track sets, with station house.  Table is green on one side, city streets on the other.  Retail value is over $350.

Here's a picture of the table and trains.



I'm so thankful for people's responses to this.  We all have stuff we don't need lying around.  I am still too chicken to read "7" by Jen Hatmaker, but I just might be in a place of spiritual sensitivity by the time this is all over.

I've had some great - DUH! - moments of God lighting me up lately, but my best blogging happens when I'm at work and the girls are at school.  Not much gets accomplished during the summer.  I will try to record what I can and get back into the swing soon.  For now, we'll keep playing the trade-up game until we've met our goal of paying off the $22000 in adoption debt before our little "SURPRISE" shows up.  (7 months and counting).

In case you're curious, we have decided on baby names, whether this one is a boy or a girl.  We're going to keep the first names starting with A, because no matter how they got here, they were all Plan A.  No back up plans, no accidents, just perfect and planned by God.  

Now, go find those rookie baseball cards in grandma's attic!

3 comments:

Andie Reynolds said...

oohhhh, I so want that for John Embert....I'm thinking and thinking of what I have that would be a good trade!!

Andie Reynolds said...

Ooh, Ooh, I have a BowFlex that we are not using. I can get a picture tonight or in the morning. It was mama's and she bought it new for about $2000.00

Andie Reynolds said...

$1200.00, not $2000.00 - sorry!

I also have A TON of Creative Memories scrapbooking items I was about to put on ebay (albums, pages, stickers, stickers sleeves that go in a binder, paper, cutters, bags and carrying cases, and a lot more. I am working on getting an estimate of how much it's all worth now, so let me know which one you are more interested in, if either at all!