Dear readers–Today I am cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. Tomorrow morning, my Mom and Pop arrive from Pennsylvania. On Saturday, my in-laws arrive. It’s only 2:07pm right now, and I’m already spent.

This morning, we *finally* got around to donating all the stuff we’ve been meaning to donate FOREVER. If you can imagine a Buick LaSabre packed to the gills, you can imagine how much stuff we got rid of. Here’s a quick (and probably not all-inclusive) rundown of what donated:

Four bins of little boy clothing, size NB-2T
Two bags full of adult clothing
A bag and a box full of little boy shoes
A box filled with adult womens’ shoes
Infant toys
My wedding dress, veil, and ring bearer’s pillow
A couple of coats
An espresso maker
An Evenflo framed backpack
A Boppy nursing pillow

Jude’s highchair is being donated to the church where Josh works. I remember visiting Josh there on Sunday mornings when Jude was little and looking around frantically for a (non-existent) highchair for Jude. I hope some other parents will have an easier time wrangling their children with our highchair.

We’re also donating our old (but not really old) printer to an organization that recycles them somehow. I can’t tell you how good it feels to pass this stuff along to other people who might really need it.

OH! And you know what else feels GREAT? Throwing our Diaper Champ and our cloth diaper laundry basket away! Jude is doing so, so well potty learning. He wearing his underpants during nap time now, and for the past three nights has kept his cloth diaper dry, so tonight we give underpants a go!

And in case you’re wondering, the hardest thing for me to give up was my old Boppy nursing pillow. Of course, I kept the newer of the two I had to soften the blow, but I still had myself a little cry for just a minute or two.

How about you, readers? What have you donated lately?