Dear Mom’s Book Club Ladies,
In the last several weeks I have become the most popular person on the block. All the children know me and visit me regularly. And when I say regularly, I mean almost every hour. Now while I would like to think my recent heightened popularity is a result of my winning personality, good looks, or intelligence, deep down I know there is another reason. I have games!
I want to thank you all for your generous monetary contributions. With the money you raised, my mother was able to bring me down lots of games—Checkers, Trouble, Chutes and Ladders, Slinkys, Frisbees, Magnadoodles, Memory, Dominoes… I could go on and on. Most of my neighbors live hand to mouth. Few children have toys other than the occasional soccer ball. My horde of games is extremely exciting for them.
I have been slowly introducing the games into my community. First, I brought out the board games. The kids loved them. They were constantly hounding me for the games. Scared that the kids would lose pieces of the games, I donated them to the library. That way the kids could play them there and the pieces wouldn’t get lost.
Then a few days ago, a couple kids came over to color with me. Soon another came, and then another. Before long I had about ten kids in my house. To get them outside, I broke out the rest of my games—the Frisbees, jump ropes, slinkys, magnadoodles, balls, etc. My only condition was they return all the games in the afternoon. To my surprise, they brought them all back.
We have continued this pattern every day since: I lend out the games in the morning and they bring them all back in the afternoon.
Today, I was awaken at 8:30 by a group of children calling out “Señorita Katalina!” (I go by Katalina because they can’t say Kaitlyn.)
As I tried to not make any noise in the hopes they would leave, I heard them say, “Has she left?”
“I haven’t seen her leave.”
“Where is she?”
“Señorita Katalina!”
I really am very popular.
So on behalf of ‘my kids,’ thank you very much! You have brought a huge amount of joy to some incredible children. As they say, Dios le paga—May God repay you.
Sincerely,
Kaitlyn
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