Last Christmas was very challenging for us. My daughter split her time between her regular job and ubering to keep a roof over her children's head and to keep the utilities on. Knowing we were not going to be able to do Christmas gifts for the children, I hoped for something to give. Then in November I came across the information for USPS Operation Santa. It's where children write letters to Santa and mailed to an address in the north pole. Letters were collect by the postal service and uploaded to a designated website where people around the country could view and select a child's letter to fulfill. Never heard of it before so I shared it with everyone I knew including posting it here on this page. I then drove to my daughter's house and encouraged my grand children to write letters to Santa. They were so excited to do it as we've never done that before. We had a fun night of it. I gathered letters and dropped them in the mail. Hopeful that they would get selected.
As the holiday came to a close I figured that our letters did not make the cut. With no gifts for the children I resorted to telling them that Santa was practicing social distancing this year and only went to every 6th house on Christmas eve. Unfortunately their house fell between 1 and 5 but hopefully next year he will visit them. They seemed contented with that explanation but I kept holding out hope that something would come through for them.
Then yesterday (January 11th) as luck would have it, while I was visiting my grandchildren, the mailman came with two boxes from Amazon addressed to A'Layrah (7 of 7). At first my daughter was tripping thinking that somehow her 7 year old figured out how to order stuff off Amazon but as she opened the first box it became obvious that the stuff inside was exactly what the children asked for in their Santa letters. There was a card addressed to "the parent", inside was a handwritten note and some more welcome surprise. At this point it was apparent that someone did select the children's letters off the website. She quickly opened the other box which revealed more stuff for the children. The next day my daughter called to say another box came. This one had the toy kitchen that A'Layrah wanted. My daughter was overwhelmed with gratitude because the children received what they wanted for Christmas even if it was after Christmas. The boys received the video game and jackets they wanted while the girls received what they wanted. More on point A'Layrah received the princess dress and toy kitchen she wanted. There was even something for baby Novah.
To show how nothing escapes her attention, A'Layrah remembered what we said about Santa practicing social distancing and she decided that Santa mailed gifts to those 1 to 5 houses he missed on Christmas eve.
I would be remiss if I did not take this opportunity to thank the person or persons responsible for putting a smile on my little people's face. On behalf of my daughter, the Jackson clang, and great granddaughter, thank you for your kindness. To the staff and coordinators of Operation Santa, thank you for all your efforts to ensure that children all around the country received something for Christmas. We are so grateful. I'm just saying - I got issues. What about you?)i(
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