The Little Things /revr4 5/20

It's so amazing how much our town EVERYONE wants to help.  And there's so much that we need!  Our immediate needs are taken care of by insurance, thank goodness.  And they've been great. I'm really uncomfortable with public fundraisers, because things are, so far, going smoothly. But everyone wants to help, so I'm going to smile and be gracious. There is a gofundme page, if you'd like to do that.  But SO many things are not easily replaced.  I've thought of a few of these types of things, and will update this post as I think of more.

We are currently at a hotel.  It's comfortable, suites not just a room, but not long term.  Most of the "things" we are not able to accept at this time, if you can just set them aside for now, that would be great.  I will try to keep this list updated with things we have been told about.  **date: 5/20 **

I've already mentioned the kids t-shirts - all those Winthrop activities, like Latin Club, Math Team, Robotics - to a couple of people.  I'm hoping that when we find time to go to Tabitha's Closet or Becky's Second Time Around, that we will find some donated ones.  Phillip wears XL t-shirts, and Teresa wears a L usually, but XL also works.  (Our Robotics teammates have said they are working on this.)

** we have two offers already.  You guys are amazing, and fast! Teresa's clarinet is no more.  We now have had THREE people offer a clarinet.  

Phillip had been collecting Transformers since he was six years old.  We've bought three new ones, so he can transform them and relax.  His first was "Red Alert" from about 2005/2006.  If you have OLD transformers, and were planning to donate/yardsale them, we'd love them.  

Our games closet had been full...  I needed to declutter those, but this was too drastic.  :)

We lost a *LOT* of books.  We don't expect to replace all of them... (Yikes, what a scary thought!) But there are some that I would like to have.  My mother got "Moo Baa La La La" for Teresa...   I'm going to think about which books we read over and over and over, and if you're looking to declutter your own kid's books, I'm happy to accept!  (Please don't go out and buy new.  We're happy with well-loved books, as ours were.  Teresa agreed with this, that all new books would not make it feel better, like well loved books would.)

The Monster at the End of this Book.  (My absolute favorite

The book of poems  - "Looking in and Other Stories" (a golden book, I believe.  Very old.)

-The Napping House (Phillip got this at a doc visit, we read it over and over)

-Stephen King books.  (Bob and I *EACH* had a copy of earlier books, once we got married just one copy..  LOL!)

Expect this section to get larger...  

Goedel, Escher, Bach.   (Again, in  those "wow, you, too" things from our dating days, we each had a copy!  Now down to 0.)

Bob's book.  Maybe I'll ask Cengage if he can get another copy.  

(Wow, the book list might need it's own list.)

** Thanks to Don Beattie for offering his information on our shared Ancestors.  I hadn't even thought about the genealogy paperwork we had... more amazing gifts being shared.

** need sleep.  I will continue this later, but thought I'd let folks know the kinds of things that are on my mind.