Elizabeth - you can CALL me if you need information, or send me something in the mail... I won't be posting things online for you to read.
Friends - email me if you want to chat, or would like to know what we're up to, I'd be more then thrilled to connect with you via email.
Signing off,
Cassandra
Okay, the Lord has BLESSED our socks off BIG TIME. We had already purchased tickets to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas party at WDW... they cost me $140 and I wanted to find a way to re-coup some of that money, so I checked on EBAY and they were selling for approx 10% discount. So, I listed them for $10 a ticket and hoped that I'd re-coup most of my money, but I didn't expect it.
Within 24 hours I had 9 emails asking me to end the auction early, that they'd pay me full price for the tickets.. $140. I wanted to take one particular lady up on her offer because she lives right here in my city, and I figured how easy would that be?? She could just come right over and pick them up. So I went to get the tickets in my hands before calling her and I couldn't find them!!!!!!!! The auction was a 5 day listing, so I figured I had a little bit of time to figure it out and went about my business cleaning house, packing for our trip etc... figuring I'd come across them as I went, since I remember placing them in a "safe" place.
In the meantime, like a turd, I avoided my computer like the plague because I was so worried about having to cancel the auction due to not being able to find the silly tickets!! Good grief! lol...
So, in a last ditch effort, I decided to check my desk again, and they were sitting right there, in the most obvious place you can imagine!! So I got on the computer to see how the auction was doing, and if I should go ahead and accept one of those 9 offers to cancel the auction. I was taken aback and in awe and wonder when I saw that the tickets were already at $340!!!!!! OMGosh! I checked the WDW website and the tickets have sold out. No wonder! The timing!!! God is sooo in the fine details. I had the phone in my hand to call and let someone have them for $140 but couldn't find the tickets. Then.... while I'm waiting around for a couple days they sell out and the value goes through the roof! We needed the money, I just never dreamed God would provide us with it like this!
They closed today at $560. I had no idea that was remotely possible! It never occured to me to sell them for a PROFIT... I was just hoping I'd get back some of my money. The Lord is soooo good. WOW!
I am floating on cloud nine!
We had the most lovely day/evening. My MIL and I have been distanced now for a few years.. (way too long of a story to tell, and I already have it journalled oodles anyways) and she and I have started to re-connect. It's really good.. really good.
So, the kids and her put together a coin collector kit with all the state quarters this afternoon and then we went to her house and had pizza and watched movies. We got to chit chat a lot and were able to apologize to each other and move forward from our very, very broken relationship. So good.. I really feel blessed right now. God has allowed our relationship to begin healing, and we're going to make it. I love that. It's important to me that the kids have their Grandma, and I love having her as a friend.