The day started with an incredibly delicious breakfast feast prepared by two of the volunteers. These two stayed up for more than 24 hours cooking and making everything perfect for Christmas day. It was sooo nice! Then after breakfast we gathered all the babies (except for the smallest ones) in the main nursery to open presents. I can't believe the amount of donations and gifts that TLC received from the community! It was amazing!!! There was literally a mountain of gifts. So we all grabbed a few babies and opened the gifts together. There were tons of clothes and toys, along with some necessities like baby wipes and bum cream, etc. Liz and I had the day off because we were just coming off of night shift, so we spent a lot of our day helping in the kitchen because we felt so sorry for those two volunteers who stayed up all night cooking :) We mostly helped with the washing up after meals, and we had a lot of fun working together with the other volunteers in the kitchen.
One new baby arrived in the nest around Christmas time. Her name is Sihle, and she is nearly seven months old. She came from another home that needed us to take her for the holidays. She is quite ill, but she has improved vastly in the few weeks that she has been at TLC. Hopefully she can stay at TLC and not have to go back to the other home. Please keep her in your prayers.
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Those kids are so ADORABLE! I can't believe how many presents you had, that is so great.
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