tis the season for giving.

I didn’t write a Thanksgiving post like I intended. Listing all that I’m thankful for. I didn’t blog because at the time I was feeling more depressed and moody than thankful. I was thinking of all that I don’t have. Then my mom told me that she is “adopting a family” for Christmas. More specifically, a single mom to a 13 year old boy. That hit me hard. Now all I’m thinking about is how much I do have to be thankful for and what I want to do to help them. Their wish list consisted of the usual needs. Clothes, bookstore gift certificates to help get the books for school, items for around the house and then their “dream item”. His is a PSP game and hers is simply a Walmart Gift Certificate. I know I’m always bah humbug around Christmas time. I blame working retail. This year is going to be different. This year will start a new Christmas tradition of adopting a family. Giving back when so many have helped me so much. I don’t know yet what I’m going to contribute to this amazing family, but I want to make sure that it makes a difference to their christmas. Every year I want to “adopt a family”. I’m lucky enough to not need to use the service myself, but I have used other government services. I don’t know what I would do if they weren’t there available to me. I want to give back and that will continually remind me to be thankful for what I have. It might not be as much as others, but I could be a lot worse off.