Our Charter school hosted a Silent Auction/Spaghetti Dinner before school let out for the winter break. Monetary donations were collected from each class and then items to fill themed baskets were purchased. Room Parents put their classrooms themed items (our class was Lego based) in a basket and prettied them up, wrapped them in cellophane and listed and described the contents and set on display. The baskets were then posted on line and bid on for 4 days before the live silent auction began. We meant to only place a couple of bids and then leave for the evening so we went pretty early. The baskets were so amazing and our inner competitive nature came out. Mr B and myself ended up stalking our baskets the whole night. Needless to say, it came down to the 1 minute warning call but we won two of the baskets at the auction. 1 filled with AMAZING baby gear (a special treat for our wonderful friends the M's who are expecting lillofella number 2 in June) and the other an Italian themed basket... for $200 we got a $50 italian restaurant gift card, $250 in gift certificates to the Bellagio in Las Vegas, cook books, olive oils and balsalmic vinegars, pasta and bottles of italian soda! We felt like awesome winners and we supported the school too. While we boringly walked laps around the stage, Breeze and Neilio hung out with the lillo B's and did free crafts, listened to music and hung out with friends. We had a great time together kicking off the winter holiday!
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