11/02/2026
I said earlier on my personal page ( Laura Dale ) that the Fall season is especially hard for our family. For those who are new to Kyas Promise we have four (4) children with significant special needs and chronic medical issues that lead to life shortening diagnoses.
Kyas Promise Kitchen is the physical representation of a promise I made to our daughter the day she passed that I would use use what she taught us, as medical parents and as humans for a purpose. We adopted three more kiddos just like her, after her passing. And helped 🤗40 other kiddos find forever homes through financial grants to adopting families.
Fall is hard because its full of old grief in our hearts and this year, one of our grant recipient families lost their child the same day Elias left us. He was special to us (especially my husband) because we had never fought so hard to get a kid home. We even traveled to Poland to physically find him & get eyes on him for his momma, after the Ukraine war broke out and they moved his orphanage to Warsaw.
Without knowing where he physically was, the crazy twisty adoption/visa problems that plagued Benjis post adoptive process never could have been resolved and that little boy would have been lost forever.
Needless to say, today my heart hurts and I'm having a time with it.💔 Emotionally Im absolutely going to be "OK" as I'll ever be, but I find on days like this my body & soul NEED TO ACT, to release all these built up emotions and it needs to be for something good.
So as I was starting my day today quietly praying, wondering what to do I was gently reminded about my friend and an experience I had a few weeks ago. So early last month we had a friend who needed a pretty intense surgery and long recovery period with no lifting or walking around, her beautiful son reached out to me about purchasing meals for his momma while she recovers.
Now anyone who knows me, knows I would never take a penny for that kind of request. We made plans and we brought over sustenance several times.
Yesterday I pulled out 10 # of chicken to meal prep enchiladas with the intent to bring her another meal as well...and immediately upon thinking of my friends need this morning, God said..."who else needs a meal because of a similar reason, but doesn't have a loving child to ask for them? How many could you feed with that chicken?"
😭 So here I am crying cause it immediately felt RIGHT. So looks like today I'll be prepping some meals, and I know exactly how to find the recipients and tomorrow we will personally deliver a platter of my moms Chicken Enchiladas, homemade beans & rice and a 2nd meal of soup & dinner rolls to people in our area that need some delicious food when they may not be feeling the best.
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If you are local and know of someone who may need a pick-me-up meal, please reach out to me via email @ [email protected] or send a message and I'll reply.
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If you are NOT a local and would like to send $5 to cover disposable food containers I'll not say no to that 🤣
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