We have some wonderful friends, Nicole and Raul, who are moving to Puerto Rico and a couple of weeks ago we planned a last hurrah for our families. At their swimming pool we had the opportunity to meet some families from the neighborhood. Even with our friends preparing for their move we were so happy that they had found such a wonderful community of people to live next to for the last two years. After the pool we headed to the house of one of the neighbors to do some backyard barbecuing and, again, Brian and I commented on house nice and friendly the neighbors were that we were meeting. Dinner was amazing - even fighting the gusting wind that tried hard to steal our plates of food and wrestled with our napkins - it was fun to enjoy our friends and get to know some new people.
At the end of dinner, Nicole came outside carrying a big gift bag, and said that they (our friends and their neighbors) had a gift to help Jacob and Joshua during the next weeks and months. Imagine my boys delight and our utter...shock? Awe? Amazement? As the boys opened the present to find a Wii Sport and the Wii Play packed inside.
I am not often speechless. But there are really no words (especially in the moment) to describe what we felt as people we have never met or spent time with took time, energy, caring & money from their own life and gifted it to my boys and our family.
So to our friends
- Raul, Nicole, Matthew and Michael
- Tracy, Tamara & Gregory
- Chris & Emil
- Karen
- Adam & Jennifer
- Mike, Lori & Mikey
