I want to thank all of you who have helped make this a special Christmas for my family. The past three months have been very rough on us all, financially, mentally, emotionally and even physically.
We have been showered with so much love, I can not even believe it. We have had people sending up prayers from coast to coast. We have felt both the love and prayers. I think that is was has helped us keep it together. Through all of this we have found out who our real friends are and who cares for us. We have even had rekindled some old friendships through out all this.
Over the past three months we have been blessed with over $2200 between financial gifts and gift cards from friends and family. We are more grateful than you will ever, ever know. We truly would not have made it during this time with out all your support.
This past Saturday we came home to our house being broken into. Instead of taking things, they left us a ton of gifts under our tree. Sunday morning after we got the kids all up and awake we opened them. There were 10 to 15 gifts per child and a few goodies for Dan and myself. While opening gifts I received a text that had a picture of the Calvary Temple Youth group all gathered around our tree. I found myself in uncontrollable tears at the thought of their generosity. This year they decided to forfeit their gift exchange for each other and instead put all the money they would have spent and get gifts for my family. I am still in awe of the self sacrifice each of them made to bless my family.
I can not get over how we have been so blessed this holiday season. I know that a lot of you have helped make this a very special Christmas. I know that this will be one unforgettable Christmas for The Pingel Five.
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