Christmas Crazy 2016. Volume Please.

Hi.

It's very nearly the middle of December. That means it's very nearly Christmas. There's this thing I like to do every Christmas, and that's to sit on a warm and cozy couch watching my girls smile from ear-to-ear as they play with their new toys. I sit on that couch and quietly watch them, knowing that all over Pittsburgh, there are other mothers doing the exact same thing.

The difference between me and those other mothers all comes down to luck. It's luck that has led me down the path that I'm on now. It's luck that allows me to walk the aisles of Target, carefully picking out toys, knowing that I have a safe home to return to once the selections are made.

Those mothers don't get a chance to walk the aisles of a store because those mothers are struggling as they search for a safe space. They're trying to provide for their children even as they fight for their own independence. Domestic violence doesn't pick on the people who "deserve it" - nobody deserves that fate. It picks the people who luck turned its back on.

They just want to give their kids a good Christmas.

You've made that happen every year since 2009. It's an incredible streak that I hope to never see end. Each year you make it possible for mothers all across Pittsburgh to wake up Christmas morning to smiles as their kids who have survived a violent situation discover that Santa has remembered them.

Santa is real. I've seen it. Every year since 2009, his spirit of giving has swept through my tiny corner of the internet.

We're at a little over $3500. Let's double that before the week ends.

Shop from the Amazon Wish List or throw a few dollars into Santa's sack.

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[Nora]

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