Paying it forward...

I sent my clothes and Kurt's baby clothes off to Traci. She's prego w/number 3 and needs maternity clothes & baby clothes. I decided to send them off to her and donate them to their church swap shop. The swap shop is a place where they can get free stuff that families can donate their things and also get things they need without having to pay cash for it. Traci and her family are in Louisiana and her husband is studying to become a church pastor. They live in church/school housing and they don't have a lot of money. She homeschools her kids and does a dang good job of it too. She has mentioned how tight money is since she doesn't work and the husband is going to school full time. I think they get some sort of stipend from seminary school and that's about it. She's in the same mom blogring as I am and I have been connecting with her. When she said she was going to the swap shop for maternity clothes, I instantly thought of her. I also felt sending the baby clothes to her would help her out too in case she has a boy. If not, it can be donated to the swap shop instead. I figure give it to those in need and everything would be put to good use. However, It took me a few months to finally gather everything and send it off to her. Part of me had a hard time doing it but last Friday, I didn't check the bags of clothes. I couldn't think about it. I just put them all in the box and taped it up as fast as I could. Just not putting any emotional thoughts in my head as I gathered everything together. It was: Just do it, she needs them soon, you've procrastinated long enough..she's 4 months prego..Hurry!"
She got them yesterday.
So, today, I went to read her blog and she did a shout out to me. I had a hard time parting w/the clothes to begin with. Mentally & emotionally I thought I would be ok with it.
As I read her blog, I thought oh good she got them. She posted pictures. Then I saw the picture of the opened box with Kurt clothes. That was it. It just made me lose it. I cannot get over the fact that I gave the clothes away. I just feel my heart aching...=( I know I'm paying it forward though so it's all good. Why do I have to be such an emotional person?!
Read Traci's blog below...so sweet and i'm so sad (good sad). My baby is growing so fast!
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Today we received a great big present in the mail from Jennifer! Jathan was almost as excited as I was.

This gigantic box was filled with maternity clothes and baby clothes. We pulled out each piece individually and ooh and aahed over each one. Jathan was so funny...he would go, "Oh, Elmo, pretty!" Keeleigh couldn't believe how small the little outfits were and we tried to imagine putting our little baby into them.

Thank you so much Jen! You've helped us out immensely and absolutely made our day.