These are a few things that we are shipping to 3 special little munchkins that are 3, 2, and 1 year old. I love shopping for children and finding deals. It is my weakness!
These are for my parents god grand children. They are the children of a little girl that we helped raise when I was in high school and she was her mothers first child. Her mother is a few years older than me.
So, to make a long story short, my parents bonded with this child because we were introduced to her mother shortly after she had her. The grandmother (mother of the mom) passed suddenly when she was in high school and it was just her (the mother) and the father (grandfather). One of my aunts met her father (the grandfather) at the VA hospital since the grandfather was a retired vet and my aunt was a RN and found out that they resided in the same neighborhood as my parents when they became good friends.
My aunt suggested that we meet them since we were all in the same neighborhood. I was a freshman in high school at the time.
She had her first child that last year of high school and we all fell in love with that baby and she became apart of our family.
Well, that baby is now 23 years old and has 3 children of her own. We kept her on and off through her school age years, but my parents should have gotten custody of her for various reasons to change her path. She has remained connected with my parents all of these years, but has not taken exactly the path that she needed to take.
My parents have attempted to assist her and bless her by paying for tuition for her to go to college after she had her second child and shortly into the program she found out she was expecting the third one. My parents were beyond disappointed, but try to still help out with the children when they can to expose them to different things in life.
Here we are now with three beautiful children that are sweet as pie and need support. My parents keep them frequently and love these little ones to death. They call my parents Nana and Papa! I am their Auntie ( I guess great Aunt) since their mom called me Auntie also and she still does!!
At the same time my parents are encouraging their mother to get on the right track to provide a better life for her children because she is still young and has time to get her life together.
The children were scheduled to come with my parents to my home this past week because my father was on vacation and my mother took the week off too. My parents cancelled the trip due to the snow in NC. Charlotte was messed up pretty bad on Monday and my parents would need to travel through 85S to get to us, so they cancelled coming this past week and kept the kids and took them to visit relatives in another part of NC.
Now, I am sending their care package to my parents house so that my parents can give them their gifts next weekend. We were looking forward to having them come to our home for the first time. We will probably have them come visit for a week or two this summer (3 kids).
Hubby and I discussed taking the three year old this summer for a few months and letting her stay with us so that we can put her in a preschool and expose her to some different things as well as enroll her into gymnastics and few other things. In addition, her speech was not up to par and I wanted to address that here.
My mother would like for us to wait to see how things are manifesting with our adoption first. Many of my friends and close family have advised me that once we take her that we are not going to want to let her go back and she is not going to want to go back. However, we know that if we take her, it is temporarily because I do not want to split the kids up. They are very close. I just want to give her a fighting chance to get ahead.
I just felt led to take this child for a little while because we have the room, the time, and the resources right now to provide for her.
We enjoy doing things for others because we are led to and not for recognition, because someone definitely did things for me as a child. I guess we feel that when God has blessed you, it is your duty to bless others. That is what I have always done and will continue to do.
I found great deals on some spring items for them. I purchased that chocolate jacket for the baby after Christmas. It was originally $80.00 (what a bargain), but we found it after Christmas for $15.00. We purchased it in a 2T so that she can wear it for this coming winter since she just turned 1 this week.
I love seeing the oldest two toddlers face light up when we bring them new clothing. The three year old shines like a star and she loves seeing new things on. It just brightens my day to know that they are experiencing what other children experience in the right environment. She says, "look" and she points to her new items on with a big kool aid grin! I love it!
We will see them in the near future when we go visit my parents. I will have a goodies for them at that time as well. They are wonderful children that just need an opportunity. If we were already settled in with the adoption completed I would take all 3 of them just so their mother can get herself together.
Don't be surprised if you see a new face on the blog within the upcoming months in our lives. This would indicate that the oldest munchkin (3 years going on 4 years) will be staying with us for a little while!
On a side note, Hubby said, "I am glad that they are not at the age where they count items."
He felt that one of them got a little more than the others--guess who? The oldest one. Actually it was all fair, the baby received 2 jackets instead of one and all of their items really were equal in price. He was just trying to say that I was being partial and I wasn't!
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