Mom Gets The Best Surprise Of Her Life After Santa Takes Off His Beard

Dec 10, 2018 by apost team

One of the best parts of the holidays is getting together with your family. Even if you haven’t seen them in a while, it’s amazing to finally get the chance to come together and spend quality time with one another.

It’s easy to get together during this time of year, because many people get days off from work or school, making commutes to their families possible. However, not everyone gets to spend the holidays with their loved ones due to their careers. Cops, nurses, doctors, firefighters and members of the military don’t get the privilege of having time off to be with their family and friends.

As you know, the war in Afghanistan is still ongoing after 18 years. This means that soldiers have spent nearly two decades away from their families for the holidays. So if they find the chance to come home to see their families, it’s an amazing event.

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Ethan Harris, a specialist in the military, has been doing a tour in Afghanistan in the 101st Airborne Division. Although he had been deployed for over a year, it was time to come home. But because the holidays were close by, his father had the brilliant idea to keep his mother in the dark and surprise her with the homecoming of Spc. Harris!

Knowing that she’d be thrilled with his arrival, they thought a surprise would be the best way to make her happy while bringing mother and son back together once again. Together with her colleagues, they figured out the best plan. It involved Spc. Harris wearing quite a different uniform than he usually would!

His mother, Kim Harris, happens to teach math at Prairie Heights High School. As a teacher who loves her job, she cares deeply for all of her students, even when her job is difficult. That’s why her son and husband knew that a surprise would be just the thing to uplift her spirits for the holidays. The school she teaches at hosts a holiday breakfast before their annual Christmas break. The gathering includes a lottery to see Santa, featuring someone dressed up as Santa himself! But this year, the lottery was rigged in Kim’s favor.

As the Superintendent called out her name to win a holiday plant, Kim sat on Santa’s lap and was laughing and enjoying herself. Although the return was supposed to be a surprise, Kim tells Santa that she is grateful her son is back in the United States. She had no idea, however, that she was sitting on his lap! You have to watch the moment she sees her son for the first time again!

This moment is truly heartwarming, and if you have a loved one in the military, you know how special this is! What do you think about Kim’s surprise? Send this to your friends and family, it will warm their hearts!