Today was a beautiful day! The sun shone, everyone I met was smiling and happy. Even ME!
Today was our local adoptive families Christmas party. We had 4 families come out (there were more expected but one didn't show up with no call, one cancelled yesterday due to illness, and another that was from quite some distance out of town so I think their RSVP might have been an oops.) and there was a wonderful Santa representative. This man agreed to come and stand in for the big guy himself and he didn't even know us. This gentleman works with my mum serving light lunch to seniors once a month. Mum doesn't know him very well either, but she asked him if he would like to be Santa for our group and he readily agreed! He even had his own beautiful Santa suit!
I was so impressed with Mr. Williams. His smile with our kids was so warm and genuine and our kids loved him!
Every parent brought a small wrapped gift for each of the kids and Santa handed them out while having his picture taken with each child. One of our older young men agreed to be Santa's helper and I thank Kadin so much. He did a wonderful job of helping.
So while we were few in number, we had an amazing time playing and sharing and enjoying each other's company.
I am so blessed to have the honour of serving this community and it's adoptive families. I'm very much looking forward to planning next year's parties already!
If you're considering adoption and would like more information please feel free to contact me about our support group meetings. We meet the third Monday of each month and we'd be happy to have you join us and we'll do our very best to answer any questions you might have.
Merry Christmas!
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