Christmas came early for Chanel Mora and her 17-month old son.

As a participant in The Advertiser's Christmas Fund, she asked that if anyone adopted her and her grandmother, Belinda Mora, she hoped she could get a car and gifts for her cousins who also are living with her grandmother in her Wai'anae home.

"Christmas came early and it was really good and we really enjoyed it," said Mora, 22, who recently received a car from Kuroda Auto Body. "They held a small Christmas party for us and made us dinner and everything. I was more shocked than anything."

She had hoped for a vehicle, but didn't dare dwell on it. But now with the generosity of the Waipio Gentry auto repair shop, she has a used car to drive her son to doctor's appointments and to the store. She has her learner's permit and plans to get her driver's license soon, Mora said.

"We're so happy," Belinda Mora said. "It was so unexpected. It's unbelievable how people can be so generous. She got what she wanted."

Chanel said she and the father of her baby are working out problems, and that her goal is to find a job and get a place she can call her own for her son and herself. And if things work out with her son's father, then they can be a family.

Her wish list included clothes for her cousins and her grandma. There's Aiden, Xavier, Jonah, Savannah, Nyllen and James.