We were very fortunate in that so many people gave us clothes for Claire – even people we had never met! Neal’s parents live in a small apartment building in Saint John, New Brunswick, and some of the ladies who live there heard a lot about their new granddaughter. A couple of times when Neal’s parents came to visit, they had gifts from those ladies!<\/p>\n
We recently hit, however, a stage where Claire didn’t have as many clothes for the size she fits into now. There were a lot of newborn and three-month, and I have a drawer-full of clothing that she will fit into down the road, but it was starting to be slim-pickings right now. A lot of the clothing I had was also summery, and now that were into November, that was a little problematic.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, I went to a neighbour’s place for a food drive party. You bring a bag of non-perishables and then you get to play some games and eat some food. It reminded me a lot of a baby shower. I brought Claire with me, and it was a lot of fun. I really like taking part in food drives because it is such a basic necessity, and yet there are so many people who need to use food banks, especially in our current economic climate. What made the even better was the fact that one of the women seated close to me told me that she had a bunch of girl’s clothing in storage. Her daughter is two, and had long outgrown the clothing she had in mind, and she offered to give it to me for Claire!<\/p>\n
I went and picked up the clothing last night, and was ecstatic to find that it was a tote box full of clothing in Claire’s size! There are a lot of cute outfits, shirts, dresses and so on. It just reaffirmed my belief in karma, that the good you put out will return some good to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We were very fortunate in that so many people gave us clothes for Claire – even people we had never met! Neal’s parents live in a small apartment building in Saint John, New Brunswick, and some of the ladies who … Continue reading