Yay for Yard Sales!

This morning our little family headed to Pittsburgh's Point Breeze neighborhood over for its annual neighborhood yard sale.  Having hit the baby-supply-jackpot last spring at a similar event in our own corner of the 'Burgh, we figured it might be worthwhile to check out this one as well.  And, boy, we weren't wrong!  Among this morning's catches:

A small stash of baby boy's clothes.  We found fewer of these types of items than we had hoped to fin, but we still managed to come home with a decent selection pieces to use through Jonah's next 6 to 9 months.  Best part:  most of these we picked up for just 25 cents a pop!

Books: several Doctor Seuss, a few Sandra Boyton, and others.  Can always use more books.

A fancy cradle swing.  We'd been avoiding buying one of these, mostly because it seemed counterproductive in terms of our maintaining an attachment style of parenting.  However, after spending an entire month of weekdays alone at home with Jonah, I finally decided that I could use at least a little time each day without a baby in my arms--a desire the merits of which, unfortunately, I have had absolutely no success convincing Jonah.  That said, we have several friends and neighbors who have sworn by the swing as a baby-approved means of transitioning from the security of Mom's arms to generally more independent locales.  And for $10 (!) at a yard sale, we're willing to give it a try.  Hopefully, Jonah will enjoy a little swing time each day--just enough so that Mom can, say, start dinner in the evening, before Daddy gets home and without having to suffer through Baby's heart-breakingly ceaseless cries.

And then, finally, the yard sale pièce de résistance:

We found this porch swing, in pretty much perfect condition, at our first stop for $5!  Honestly, I can hardly believe it.  We'd been looking at porch swings at places like Home Depot and Lowes, where they seem to start at about $120 and quickly run up to over $500!  So we're pretty thrilled about this find.  Looking forward to getting some use out of it this fall.