On Christmas Eve, we gave our kids Sunday church clothes. They were adorable! The girls got blue and black striped dresses, with black tights, black shoes and a black cardagin, and the boys had matching blue dress shirts, blue and black striped ties, black pants, belts and shoes. we lined the gifts up on a table in the room, with a chair for each kd with thier gift. We then blind folded the kids and led them to thier chair, where they had to wait with the blindfold on till everyone was ready. We ten had them take off their blindfold and as fast as they could, give the gift in front of them to its rightful owner (we mixed them up). After that, we counted to thirty, because we are choir thirty and had the kids open thier gifts. The next part gave me chills, and nearly brought tears to my eyes. The kids screamed for what could have been about 2 minutes straight and jumped up and down, screaming, and ran up to us, hugging us and running around. I've never seen anyone in my life get so excited about one gift as these kids did. We had them try them on. I remember sitting there and thinking why it is that these kids were so excited. Probably becuase this is the nicest thing they've ever owned, and definitly the only dress the girls have owned that is new. I went into the hallway, where the girls were jumping around, giggling and squealing with excitement.
They felt like princesses. as I sat there and told them how beautiful they were, i got this chill, realizing that every girl, no matter who it is, just wants to feel beautiful, and to be told that. These girls have never really felt that beautiful before. Oh, to have that kind of thankfullness for one outfit. They kept twirling in thier dresses, and smiling, and begging me to take one more picture of them. It was a moment where I realized on a clearer note what I'm doing, and even if this was the only meaningful moment this year, that moment of those girls feeling like a princess made it all worth it. When we had the girls walk out, they began jumping and shreaking when they saw the boys. It was a moment of hormones:) but also it was really amazing to see thse kids just appreciate how beautiful they looked. The whole thing gave me chills. They went to dinner that night and sang two songs at the Christmas Eve Service. It blessed me so much to see these kids so happy.
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