Kids Nominated to "Shop With a Cop"

So my kids were nominated for a few good reasons.  Reason one, they are good kids.  Reason two, their absentee father doesn’t care about them and they know it.  Even if I got no money from him, it wouldn’t make a difference. I hope his family is proud because man, his behavior was unexpected.  But anyway, kids got nominated last month.  Oh, what was great was I got a phone call from the school last week saying that Caitlyn would sit in the hall and start crying that “she wants a new dad”.  Yeah, I don’t blame her.  I was in Michigan last week, I left because someone close in my life growing up was dying and I had a chance to visit him while in hospice at home. I had 3 kids with me, I asked Matt if he’d check on his own son 13 who wanted to stay home because he desperately needed to not miss his last test, and initially he refused stating the cable man appointment was more important.  Eventually after reminding him it was his time with him anyway since it was a Saturday, and some foul language by text, he got his way over there. Problem was, we were all sick, I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it home quick enough… just needed him to check on his welfare.
So here were are, holidays 2015. Kids have essentially no father. LIke his family handed over money for me to buy them something without regard to the fact that they are kids they’d want something physical from him.  He didn’t see or ask about them on Thanksgiving, I expect the same this year.  So all in all – our charity is from MY good kids and people feeling sorry for them. Whatever they know comes from the kids’ mouths, I refuse to speak of the situation to anybody because i’m so highly embarrassed.
Here is the video…

Here are the pictures!