Selling Books, DVDs and Cds on Half.com - The Millilo Book Store

Robert and I have accumulated many books over the years as well as many are from the auctions we have won. Many people have told us about their success with selling their books on www.half.com . Half.com is affiliated with Ebay and runs similar to purchasing and selling books on Amazon. However, there are no up front listing fees on Half.com and your books/movies/video games/music stay on their site until you remove them or sell them. Once you make a sale they email you to notify you to send the item to the purchaser. Half.com collects a small percentage of the sale and sends you a credit for shipping costs twice a month on all of your sales.

Since we heard so much about Half.com we finally decided to list some books this past weekend. We listed 30 books on Sunday afternoon and to our surprise on Monday morning we had our first sale. Yesterday we sold 2 more books. Wow! How easy was that! Last night we listed another 14 more books so now we have our own little book shop. We’ll be adding to it periodically since we have many many more books to sell. If you’d like to check out “The Millilo Book Store” click on this link http://shops.half.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?HalfSearch&seller=getitnow1013 or click on the link to the right side of the page call “Millilo Book Store”. It will take you directly to all the books we are selling to help pay for the adoption of our daughter. It’s another way to fundraise for your adoption. It’s easy to set up an account with Half.com especially if you already have an Ebay id.

One nice thing about listing on Half.com you don’t need to type the description in to the listing. Since all you do is type in the ISBN number (number near the bar code) it pulls up the picture of the cover of the book, description and the price ranges of other people selling the same book for. All you need to do is describe the condition and put in your price. It’s that easy. Much easier than Ebay and your listings stay on as long as you want and you don’t get charged for any fees until you sell the item/s. Give it a whirl with a few books you have laying around the house. You might be pleasantly surprised.

Happy 4th Birthday, Andrew!

I can't believe Andrew is 4 years old. My how time is flying by. It seems like just yesterday we were playing peek-a-boo with him and helping him learn how to walk.

This year we had a home birthday party with family members and a couple of Andrew's closest friends. The morning of his party Andrew and Robert went out to pick up the cake and balloons while I stayed home to put the decorations up and set up the dining room table with all of the plates and decorations and party hats. It was hilarious when Andrew and Robert got home from the store. Andrew came running into the house since he couldn't wait for Mommy to see his birthday cake. When he came dashing into the dining room to find me he stopped dead in his tracks and saw all of the decorations and started screaming with delight. I certainly didn't expect that reaction from him. He was hilarious how excited he was to see the house decorated for his special day. Too funny! He even gave me a hug and told me I was the best Mom ever.

All of the kids had a ball with the different games we played and it was especially fun for everyone to see how many hits it took before the pinata finally broke. It was starting to get a little scary to see how hard the people were swinging that bat in our living room. I'm really surprised to see my father-in-law sit on the couch through it all being so close to the action. He certainly got a front row view. Robert finally had to finish breaking the pinata open to end the game just so no one would get hurt. The kids were funny to watch as they went after the candy. I got a kick out of our neice Julia when she was picking up the candy. She wouldn't put any candy in her bag, instead each piece went directly into her mouth.

All in all Andrew's birthday party was fun and everyone had a good time. After everyone left we had dinner and then we got Andrew into pajamas early since he didn't have a nap that day. It was funny to see that he still HAD to wear his party hat even though the party was over and he was lying on the couch next to us. When he fell asleep I gently took the party hat off of his head and a few minutes later he woke up and immediately realized he was missing his hat and insisted that he have his hat back only to fall asleep with it again.

Paperwork in Ukraine, Translated & Waiting to be Submitted

Okay now, our paperwork or dossier is finally in Ukraine, translated and in line waiting to be submitted to the SDA for approval and a date to meet with them to complete our adoption. I'm glad it's out of our hands and in Ukraine getting ready to be submitted and approved.

I must say that now that I look back on the last few months of waiting for our approvals (so we can send our dossier overseas to Ukraine to receive our approvals) I see now that if our approvals came any earlier, we wouldn't have had the funds for the next step in the process of the adoption. God is awesome how He knows the perfect timing for everything. We always tend to wonder why not now for whatever it is we are waiting or believing God for, but He knows the perfect time for everything.

I praise and thank God for all of the Ebay orders over the holidays and even throughout January which certainly brought the funds we needed for the next step in the process. He's always on time, never late and never early but always on time.