CM, what a lovely story! I could appreciate your desire to do more and to want to be more a part of the process. It's hard not to be emotionally invested in these kids and wish you could be there to see their joy, or to wrap the presents because it's such fun to open them.

So I hear you...

Thank you for sharing this. And oh, if only you could have shared that cheesecake, too, I'd be right at the front of the line!