Peri

Reading this post made me feel bad. Back before Christmas, I made a post in a thread about what to do when you couldn't give your kids a nice Christmas. I had two people ask me to email them. Honestly, I didn't know what they wanted, I thought they wanted to talk. I hadn't made any friends on BBS up to this point and, since I wasn't asking for help, just moaning and groaning, I didn't realize they were going to offer help. I was tickled to death and very cheered up when they replied to me that they wanted to send some things. One other member posted that she had several extra things lying around that she couldn't use, so I emailed her inquiring about them, with every intention of using my paypal to buy some of the things from her, or at the very least pay shipping for the things.

What ended up happening was one of the nicest experiences I've ever had. One of the people who asked me originally to email her, Melodyjl, sent me a box of assorted girlie things (I have four girls) and she even put in a few things for me. I was super appreciative of this, because I know that she was having a difficult Christmas herself, and I thought it very sweet she would share what she had with me. She and I emailed a couple of times, and I thanked her in email.

The other person was the one I wrote to about the things she had extra, Aunt2Makayla. She was a bit of a sneak, asking me what sort of things my girls liked, claiming she was going to look and see what all she had. Well, she ended up literally "adopting" my family. She and her husband sent us several boxes of things. She went out shopping for my kids and bought them several gifts each, even ordering a doll for my youngest from Amazon because she felt like she wasn't getting an equal amount of gifts. She put off buying a present for her own daughter to do this for my daughter. She sent me gifts, too, and even included a very nice bottle of Armani cologne for me to give to hubby. She sent us a very nice breakfast basket that was loaded with stuff that came in a beautiful wooden basket, and then after Christmas I received yet another gift of a sausage and cheese box. Heck, she even included wrapping paper so I could wrap the gifts for my kids! I was bowled over by this, because it seemed every day for a week I was getting a huge box from this girl and her husband, and I could NOT stop crying the whole week. Not tears of sadness, mind you, but of relief and joy and happiness. She and I exchanged a few emails, too, in which I thanked her.

I guess I didn't post this before publicly because, ashamedly, I was a little embarrassed to admit I'd gotten help from anyone. But then reading this thread made me realize that no one is going to look down on me for that, and that these gals deserve a huge public thank you for what they did for me and my family. So I wanted to thank Melodyjl and Aunt2Makayla for giving my family a wonderful Christmas. Without you two, we wouldn't have had anything. I've lost touch with both of you, but it doesn't mean that I don't think about you all the time and appreciate still what you did.

Because of some of the posts I read about people being upset that the person they sent something to didn't bother to respond at all, I wanted to also add that there was one other person who said she was going to send some things. I know that she had some things happen unexpectedly, so I don't know if she did or not. I didn't receive anything, (and that's TOTALLY okay, believe me, my family was blessed *tremendously as it was) but I just wanted to post it here, because if she *did send something, I didn't get it, and I don't want her to think I am an ungrateful, selfish person. I did appreciate the thought and the offer, very much.

Anyway, I'm done rambling now. Again, I just wanted to publicly acknowledge my family's "Christmas Angels", because I guess I hadn't really realized that it's nice to feel appreciated. I'm sorry for that Melodyjl and Aunt2Makayla. You guys are the best, you're truly sweethearts. (((( Melodyjl )))) (((( Aunt2Makayla ))))