Angel Tree Happenings

I told myself I wasn't going to do Angel Tree this Christmas season, I told myself I should just focus on our adoption, I told my self that I should just let everyone else shout for the kids and take a break this year...Well that little "talk down" that I had with myself didn't work. Ha!

I've done Angel Tree every year for the past 5 years, taking a break this year felt out of place, but I convinced myself that it would be best. That was, until, I saw that about a week into AT sign ups there were still tons of kids without warriors, it made me sad to see that many of them didn't have people to fight for them.  Years past, it has always been a race to sign up for your chosen child, everyone always waited anxiously to get that email telling them they got "their" child...this year their hasn't been as much hipe or excitement about Angel Tree.

That being said, I Skyped with Kaitlyn last night (she's one of my all time favorite people, and happens to be my best friend, and advocating buddy), and we were discussing how we both said we weren't going to do AT, but we're now considering it.  Looking through all of the kids, and thinking about how many of them wont make it on to Angel Tree if they don't get warriors, we both picked a kid or two and said hypothetically that we would choose one of them if  we decided to do Angel Tree.  Well there's a little face, that's continually popped into my head throughout the day, and after praying about it, I signed up to shout for this sweet one.  I am still waiting on my "official" email, but I'm pretty positive that this little one will be my Angel Tree child.

I am so excited, to be back into advocating.  It's been a while since I've shouted for a waiting child, ever since we committed to adopting Nikolai (Charlie on RR, who was my AT child last year), I haven't really advocated much, and I miss it.  My passion, my heart. pretty much my entire life revolves around fighting for these kids and I haven't been the advocate that I should've been this year.  So, I'm jumping back in, with both feet, full speed ahead to shout for my darling, squishy, lovely, AT child, and I cannot wait to introduce this little one to all of you!

With love,
Alyssa