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Count Your Blessings (The Power of the Internet)

Posted by Tracey Gessner on Dec. 30, 2009

Well, I was all prepared to write something about the post-Christmas blues. You know, that feeling after all the planning and celebrating and indulgence is done and you have three (ok, probably four) months of Wisconsin Winter ahead of you? Then something happened. Last night on on Twitter somebody posted that their sister's best friend's house burned down this week. The family lived about five minutes away from us on the same street that my own best friend used to live on. They have three children and were now looking for people to donate clothing and possibly a futon for them to sleep on while they were staying at a family member's home. Within minutes I was scrambling through my closets, packing up bags of the girls' clothes as well as some of my own for the mom. In under an hour a friend was at our door with a pick up truck to help transport a futon we had been planning to get rid of. We just purchased a new couch last week and were wondering what we were going to do with it. As I helped load all the stuff into the truck I thought two things:

1. OMG by the Power of Twitter. I checked back and saw that a local business was already arranging for clothing and household item donations to be dropped off at their location the next day. I later read that the family couldn't believe it when he futon showed up and basically broke down after it was delivered.

2. Good lord, I really have nothing to be whining about, ok? I absolutely can not imagine what it would be like to lose my house and all my things- especially right after Christmas in the middle of winter. It is one of the worst things I can think of.

So I'm not going to talk about the winter blahs as we head into January. Instead I am grateful for my home, my health and my family. I also hope that my meager donation to a family in need can help get them back on their feet.

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