My daughter has a wonderful heart. And once again this Christmas has showed me that she is a beautiful person inside and out. We had our family Christmas party at my mom's house like we do every year. And went home around midnight. When we got home she received an e-mail from a friend of hers. Her friend and his family are going through some terrible times right now and they had no money for Christmas gifts this year. The family consists of a single mother with 3 young girls, 2 of them not in school yet and one girl in elementary school and a boy in high school.
Luckily we have great organizations like goodfellows and such to help unfortunate people around the holidays. Anyways they brought over gifts for the kids except when the mother and son were wrapping the gifts had discovered there was nothing for the oldest girl who was still in elementary school. They were really depressed and upset. Well it was after midnight when we got the news of this. Of course no stores remained open so my daughter and decided to search through our house and find some items we had that we could wrap up. As we were searching the house she decided she would rather give the gifts to this little girl that my daughter was supposed to get. She would rather herself have nothing than let this young girl be disappointed. Of course I didn't let her do that but just for the fact that I didn't think they were appropriate for someone so young. (cloths) But we scoured the house late that night looking for things this girl would appreciate. We ran them over there about one o'clock in the morning. We ended up giving her some body spray, glitter, some jewelry, an American girl doll that was never played with, books, and a board game that never got played with either. It was amazing all the things we found that meant nothing to us but the world to a little girl on Christmas. The young girl liked all her gifts. I have to smile thinking now how on Christmas morning when my daughter and I got up the first thing we said to each other was we felt we didn't do enough. We probably could have done more for this family. It strikes me odd that we didn't feel proud of the little we did, we felt a little empty for feeling we could have done more. I hope this feeling stays with us for awhile because so many people are in need of something and small gestures from people could mean so much to others. I'm also happy to say I must have done something right in raising my kids because they are amazing and rest assured they someday (way way in the future) we be amazing parents to my grand kids.
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