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A Half Dozen !

Sunday is my day to write about someone who is deserving of our respect. Today’s honorees are a couple from Minnesota.

These days having six kids is a big deal. Having six kids all at once is a huge deal, but that’s what happened in Minnesota, where a couple adopted six siblings after they had been taken into Child Protective Services (CPS) several years ago due to neglect.

Ruby Celada, 38, and her husband, Armando Ayala, 48, signed the adoption papers in Minnehaha County Courthouse late March. 

The eldest, Alanna, is 12; Arturo just turned 9; Jerry and Aiden are 8; their younger autistic brother Avery is 7; their little sister, Aniya, is 6.

The siblings were taken into CPS due to neglect from their parents, who are currently serving time in prison, the Argus Leader reported. “You don’t do that to your kids,” Ruby said of the father, her brother. “If you want children, you need to—like God says—you need to change.”

When the siblings first entered the foster system, Ruby started keeping tabs on how they were doing and anticipated one day being their mom. “I love them just like if they were my own children,” she said. “Every time I see them and I have to leave, I cried.”

“They’re able to stay together,” Ruby told The Epoch Times. “They’re just happy that they found their forever home, they’re not going to have to go to different people’s houses and stay there for a while, and then they get attached and then they have to go to another home.”

Originally from Riverside, California, Ruby and Armando now live in Leota, Minnesota. Currently, the kids are all attending elementary school and doing well in class, Ruby said.

What’s next for the family? “We’re going to be traveling to California to do something fun for our adoption day that we had,” Ruby said. “I think Sea World or Disneyland.”

Feeding six kids is going to be enough of a challenge. But taking them all to California and then to Disneyland … OMG! Could this be a chance for Disney to improve its recently tarnished image? Does anybody have a Disney connection?

5/8/22

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