Thanks for your Support ! ! !

As some of you know, our house was destroyed by a fire on May 1st.  We are safe, our boys are safe, we lost everything, but we have gained so much in the past few weeks.

Thanks so much for the outpouring of support. This kind of support has been carrying us through the last couple of weeks, and the reason we feel relief.  We have learned so much about ourselves and our community since this happened.  We have been able to remain positive because while we lost physical things, we've gained so many more emotional bonds to people in our community.  So, we might have lost stuff, but we've gained so much more in terms of friendship and support.

Some of the random acts of kindness that people have done for us are amazing, like :

• I called the pharmacist to renew my medicine, and she sent kids clothes to my house
• We picked up some free kittens from another neighbor, and they gave us bags of food from their pantry
• We went to our insurance company, and they had a birthday party for the boys complete with presents and balloons
• The families at the kids school have all bought presents for both boys, and even did a toy drive for them
• The kids school has sponsored us for the rest of the year for afterschool
• Families everywhere have donated so many clothes to the boys that we have enough for them to wear for the rest of the school year without ever having to wear the same thing twice.
• When we moved into the house our neighbors fixed up for us, it was stocked with groceries, bathroom stuff, cleaning stuff, laundry baskets, everything you would possibly need for a home.
• The hotel we stayed in for the first two days gave us room service and access to the kitchen all day (even though room service wasnt something they normally provided)
• The firemen, after putting out the fire, came back with clothes and toys for the boys

So many people have been so thoughtful to us, that I cannot possibly remember everything.  It is hard to feel down when I have so much support around me. This might sound crazy to say, but I truly feel blessed to have so much support and feel like this happened for a reason.

Thanks for being out there!

ps,  I will be going on a blog-hiatus for a few months while we rebuild our lives

peace out.

kfran