My niece and nephew mean the world to me. My brother is a single father and I have been a bit of a surrogate mother to his two children. I couldn’t be happier as I think his kids are adorable. I see the kids quite often as they come to my house and I come to theirs. Birthdays and Christmas never go unacknowledged. If anything I have a tendency to spoil the kids and my brother sometimes has to set limits with me. My adorable little nephew will turn six in two weeks and I very much want to get him what I know he really wants, (a kids electric guitar!) My brother is very unsure about this but I told him that childrens guitars are not as expensive as he thinks and if we go in on it together it will bring the cost down.
A search online has helped convince my brother that I was right, kids guitars are not as costly as he thought. I think we may have even found the childrens guitar that we want which is good because his birthday is only two weeks away! Money and materialism cannot replace the fact the kids don’t have a mother but there is plenty of love to go around in our family!