I’ve always given a part of my salary to my parents. After our first child was born, I told them, “Money’s tight right now. You’ll need to take care of yourselves.”The next day, I was shocked to find my wife in tears. She said, “Your mother… she came this morning. She gave me an envelope and said, ‘I know things are hard right now. Take this. You need it more than we do.’”Baby food deliveryPregnancy care packages
I froze. I had cut off their support only yesterday, and already my mother was giving back what little she had.When I opened the envelope, there wasn’t much — just a small sum, the kind you’d expect from parents who had lived modestly all their lives. But tucked inside was a note in her familiar handwriting:Pregnancy care packages
