CHRISTMAS IN FEBRUARY!!
You're amazing and generous donations made it feel like Christmas all over again. This sweet family held the door and helped bring all of the items into their home. Within ten minutes the empty living room had a couch and boxes FILLED with essential items, the empty kitchen soon had a table and chairs with counters covered with more goodies. Then, we filled other rooms with your generous donations. There are not words to describe the incredible feeling as we watched them take off flip flops and put on the beautiful new shoes. We're certain they're still going through all the boxes of wonderful items you provided to this family. We are hopeful that these pictures will give you an INKLING of the joy that your generosity has brought into the lives of our brothers and sisters from Somalia. We are grateful to Tyler and Kelly for their muscles (not to mention the horse trailer) without whom much of the big stuff might have put us women in the hospital. A HUGE thank you to Stefanie Fenton for organizing this event, and making all of the arrangements, in spite of a cold. She is AMAZING!!
And to all of you who gave so much,
THANK YOU!!
Mother and Daughter looking through the wonderful gifts. We wish you could have seen the big smile on her face as she pulled out a pair of sweats and then shorts and then "surgies" to size them up, then pointed to herself and said, "For ME!" and laughed and laughed.
This handsome guy didn't want to get off the horse. At his request, he got an individual shot!!
We had to chuckle a bit because the guy with the big grin wearing the Ernie shirt lives on SESAME ST. (well, technically it's Sesame Cr. but it's just off of Sesame St:)
This little cutie pie was THRILLED with his light up Spiderman Sneakers...he walked all over the house carrying his monkey friend and watching the lights go!
The precious children who received shoes, clothes and toys could not have been more adorable! Notice the sweet girl with the unicorn...it was the first thing she picked up and she didn't let go of it the rest of the night!
2 comments:
What a wonderful act of service. What is touching is how graciously this sweet family received this outpouring of love.
What a great night! So glad I got to witness this sweet family receiving the items. My fave was the little girl who found the white unicorn and NEVER put it down. Her face was pure joy! I will carry that image with me for years to come!
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