Yesterday, November 9th, my 9th day of thanks, I was thankful for my new stereo in my old car. I drive a 2000 Accord. It had a tape deck stereo with 6 programmed radio stations. No CD player, no auxiliary hookup, nothing fancy. For my birthday, Mike gave me both a new MP3 player with Bluetooth and a new car stereo that connects with Bluetooth. It's pretty amazing. It shines with pretty changing colors, it plays music I actually like, and I was able to install it myself. Now that my drive to work has increased from 5 minutes (my old school) to 30-45 minutes (my new school), I really needed an upgrade. One can only listen to news radio so much!
Today, November 10th, my 10th day of thanks, I am thankful for having the ability to spoil my daughter. Today I went out to get her a small Abby Cadabby plush doll...the pink fairy from Sesame Street. She loves her. A lot. So that's what I went out for. I also got her three books, a pair of jeans and a shirt, a coloring book and markers, and an animatronic Elmo (that's for Christmas, though...does that count?). I am very thankful that I am able to do this. I know that I go over the top, but I love to see her little face light up when she reads a new book...
As a side note, I do plan to pay this one forward. For Christmas, I am going to go Christmas shopping for Charlotte as I would have if...I'm going to buy her clothes and toys and books. I'm going to give it to Toys for Tots. It hurts my heart that I can't spoil Charlotte as I do Mia, but I feel like her little spirit would like to be remembered by me in this way. If I believe that she was selfless enough to choose to give us a healthy child in the future, I also have to believe that she would want a little baby without parents as lucky as we are to have the material things that are rightly hers. I wish I could wrap them and put them under our tree...but some baby out there just like Charlotte should have them.
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