Parentless

Written by: David Strickland
1/8/2009 4:18 PM 

A new year has come. Looking back on the last year feels better then it used to knowing your having an impact makes a lot of difference. But to be perfectly honest that doesn't mean there aren't days I wish I didn't have nearly 20 people dependent on my paycheck. The recession hasn't really effected us. We never did get much in the way of donations and the development work I've been doing is consistant. We just keep moving ahead one day at a time.

The girls enjoyed the new year and Christmas was all new for them. We celebrated Diwalli with them which seemed to be about as much like Christmas as they knew in Nov. Diwalli is mostly about Firecrackers. Not much on gifts. Come Christmas time though they figured it out quick enough. We didn't have a lot of free cash this year to use to get everyone presents it was a tight budget Christmas but we had fun anyway. We got a box of things our family sent from America which made up the bulk of the gifts the girls got along with some gifts we bought them.

Interesting Guilt trip over the holidays. Mercy and I have 2 sons plus the orphanage. Often it seems unfair that I would treat my sons better then I would the girls in the home. Then at times it feels wrong that I don't treat girls the same as I do my sons. Making my sons sacrifice in areas I'd like to spoil them but cant afford to spoil everyone.

Similar issue came up when we needed to select a school. Good schools cost an we can't afford to send all the girls to a good college prep school. Instead they have to go to the local neighborhood school that costs less. However we do spend the extra money to send our eldest son to a college prep school and we inevitably end up feeling guilty.

Tight budget Christmas gave us the same problem trying to figure out who to spend our limited christmas budget on. Spend it on the 15 people we are trying to help or spend it on our own children. In the end it all worked out and everyone was Happy we all enjoyed the time together. But by Mid day we shut the doors and spent some time together just the 4 of us. Hard act to balance and not something I expected when we left to go start our orphanage.

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