December 23, 2005
Rocking Horse
It was around this time two years ago on a cold night in Ukraine that a young woman made a painful decision to give up her baby daughter. The little girl was quarantined for a month with other abandoned babies, through Christmas, and then placed in an orphanage with 119 other children.
There, she learned to walk and talk and shared a room with up to 10 other toddlers at a time and a rotating staff of caregivers. The holidays were celebrated, though there were few actual gifts ever given to the children as their own.
Just a few days after she turned 2, an American couple visited her. She cried. But they knew right away that they wanted her for their own.
This Christmas, 2005, the new American girl, little Tara, has asked for only one thing from Santa: a rocking horse. How can Santa resist getting that for her?
Posted to Tara's Story
If Santa doesn't bring that rocking horse, shame on him. I'll throttle him myself. Because if ever a kid believed in miracles and in Santa, it must be Tara. We still have an awesome authentic Santa suit, but we have to talk Mike into donning it for Christmas Day. Or if we gave the Iceman a couple of beers, maybe he will play Santa.
Posted by: karen wiz at December 23, 2005 06:11 PM