Twice as Nice

It was a busy day. 

Ben and I'd recently purchased our first home.  After hiring and a contractor to pull down a wall standing between our kitchen and dining room, we spent weeks putting the finishing touches on our home, preparing for moving day.  (And when I say "we" I mean Ben.  Completely and utterly Ben.  100%.  I was about five months pregnant at the time and transplanting bushes and painting sheds weren't high on my list.)  And moving day had finally arrived.

Moving is exciting and exhilarating but thoroughly exhausting and soul-sucking, if you ask me.  Pro tip: schedule your move when you are at least five months pregnant.  It makes for long, weary weeks of prepping and packing, but people come out of the woodwork to help you prepare and movet.  We are incredibly blessed with dear family and a close community of people who would've stepped up, pregnancy notwithstanding and for them we are forever grateful.

My parents drove up on the Friday before moving day, picking up a lawnmower we'd put on hold at a nearby Sears and a delicious dinner.  My dad and Ben spent much of that afternoon and the following morning running all over town picking up our Craigslist bargains and hauling them to the new house in the back of my parents minivan.  While they were haggling and loading and unloading my mom and I did a little work of our own...but not of the moving variety.

I'd heard about the Twice as Nice consignment sale from a few friends and decided that I needed to spend the morning "working" on preparing for the arrival of our sweet boy by doing a little bit of baby shopping, instead of the final moving tasks I should've been doing.  See paragraph three again for my deep gratitude to our sweet friends for making this little escape possible.  My mom and I zipped over to the sale and spent a wonderful morning, relaxing and bargain hunting.  What a sale!  We found loads of cute clothes and books and accessories, including this cute terrycloth number, modeled here by Elijah Benjamin.  The sale was well organized and the prices couldn't be beat.  That hour spent marveling over the tiniest socks and onesies (nearly all of which he has outgrown) was the perfect respite in an otherwise completely hectic day.

So why this story today?  The sale is back and you don't want to miss it.  I plan to be there and thankfully have no plans to move that weekend.  Hope to see you there!!

Twice as Nice Kids Consignment Sale
October 9-13, 2012
MacGregor Village Shopping Center
107 Edinburgh South Drive, Suite 151
Cary, NC 27511
Consignor/Volunteer spots still available!
www.twiceasnice4tots.com

While all opinions are my own, this post qualifies me to be entered in a drawing for a gift card to the Twice as Nice sale.