Indianapolis Mom Benefactor Of Mysterious ‘Secret Santa’
INDIANAPOLIS — It’s empty under the Christmas tree at Mindy Coffey’s house, but that’s about to change.
“I’m excited to see the look on their faces when they see that Ho Ho has come,” said Coffey of her children, Harlee and Jaxx.
Ho Ho Ho is what her three year olds call Santa Claus.
“They know he’s coming and they know they’ve been good, but I just want to see the look on their faces is what I’m looking forward to and watching them,” Coffey said.
It’ll be a moment this single mother’s been looking forward to for months.
Coffey works six days a week, 55 hours a week to make ends meet, so her time with her little ones is limited. To be able to afford Christmas presents, she started shopping in September and put it all on layaway at the Avon Wal-Mart.
“I paid once and have been stressing for weeks over where am I going to come up with this $300. I have no idea. I’m like it’s going to go on a credit card. I’ll pay it off that way,” she said.
She was about to do just that last but got a huge surprise instead.
“Your layaway’s been paid off,” Coffey said the clerk told her.
Coffey recalled disagreeing with the clerk.
“I said, ‘no it hasn’t, I haven’t paid on it in a while. I’m going to pay it off.'”
“No,” the clerk told Coffey. “Somebody else already has.”
“My first thought was, ‘there are still good people in this world,'” Coffey said. “I don’t get emotional easy, it takes a lot for me to get emotional and I was fighting back the tears because I just couldn’t process,” she said.
Coffey said she can’t stop smiling, thinking about the Christmas morning she’s about to give Harlee and Jaxx and thinking about the secret Santa who helped make it happen.
“I just can’t thank whoever it is enough. They don’t know what they mean to me or what they’ve done for the kids,” she said.
Source: WTHR