Yard Sale!!!

I really hate doing yard sales. I hate getting up early on a Saturday, I hate the awkwardness when only one person is there and I hate having to do the math when they need change. Yet I am doing one tomorrow. But it is for a great cause. Most of you know I do the March for Babies every year. March for Babies is sponsored by the March of Dimes and it helps raise money to research things that will help babies be born healthy and those that are not to have a fighting chance. This will be my 5th year! I started it a few years after my nephew passed away. He was born 14 weeks too soon and lived for 2 weeks. I will never forget the day he died. It was a Monday. The day before everyone went up to the hospital to see him but it was so close to closing time for the NICU that I said I would wait to see him later so that the others could go see him. I never got to see him alive again. That Monday the nurse called my sister early in the morning to say it was not good. I remember getting up and she was gone and I knew. I had to clean out all the baby things she had in her room. That was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life and I hope it stays that way. Every time I feel like my life is hard or unfair I just think about that tiny baby. That little baby that was back and blue from all those needles and IVs that had to have feeding tubes and breathing tubes, that had been through more in his 2 weeks of life than most people have their whole life and I can't complain. All he ever knew was a hospital and needles. Now though he is in heaven playing with angels and seeing things I can only imagine. Joshua was only here for 2 weeks but he will be in my heart forever. Thank you Joshua for reminding me not to take things for granted and for that I will get up early to do a yard sale in the morning.


Jen