Adopted Boy Sends Xmas Gifts to Friends in Shelter, They Team up to Reward Him Later – Story of the Day

Cory’s little heart went out to his unprivileged shelter friends who hadn’t found a loving home like him, so he decided to do something special for them one Christmas. Little did the boy know that his love and kindness would return to him 20 years later.

While the snowflakes descended like glitter from the cloudy skies that morning, Cory dashed down the stairs of his new home and stopped dead in front of the Christmas tree.

He saw presents… so many of them piled under the tree! The little boy couldn’t contain his excitement as he opened them.

“Mommy… Daddy?” he asked his parents, who kissed him and wished him Merry Christmas. “Are all these presents for me?”

“Yes, they are, sweet boy,” said his adoptive mother, Heidi. “We didn’t know what you’d like, so we bought you many things.”

Cory’s eyes welled up as he looked at the gifts his parents had gotten him. But soon, a strange sadness gripped his little heart, and he thought about his friends at the shelter who hadn’t found a loving home yet…

Cory was a little boy who had been in a shelter for as long as he could remember. When Heidi and Samuel visited him and said they wanted him as their little boy, Cory cried.

“Will you be my new Mommy and Daddy?” he asked in tears, and the couple smiled.

“Yes, honey,” Samuel then told him. “We want to take you home. Would you like to have us as your parents?”

Cory nodded almost immediately, and he had to leave his friends to embrace a new life. The little boy cried when Samuel and Heidi showed him his new room with blue walls and superhero posters! He didn’t even have his bed back in the shelter.

So when Cory saw all those presents, he was suddenly reminded of his many friends who didn’t have a bed or gifts. They all slept on the floor sometimes in winter because the shelter was overflowing with kids.

“Mommy, Daddy…” said Cory, hugging a gift. “Did you get me presents because you love me?”

Heidi and Samuel laughed. “Of course, honey,” said Heidi. “We give presents to people we love! It shows we care about them. But it’s ok even when we don’t get them gifts! Sometimes, all we need to do is tell them that we care. We love you.”

Cory loved his shelter friends too. But he didn’t know how to tell them he loved and missed them even after finding a new home. So what he did was… plan a surprise for them, like his parents surprised him with gifts.

From that day on, Cory did many small and odd jobs, like helping his neighbors carry groceries and baking cookies to raise money for his poor friends, and he also saved the little allowances he got from his parents and grandparents.

A year later, on Christmas, he dashed to...