Originally Posted by Maggiesmom

For the past year or so I have been helping a family meet some everyday kind of needs for their children (all teenagers). Even though both worked, a layoff of weeks followed by a lower paying job for husband and a very limited part-time job for the wife plus medical bills for the whole family had put them in a rather desperate position. They were barely able to put a roof over their heads. So my husband and I often helped with extra food and clothing. In turn she wanted to help me knowing zi had some difficulty in doing things like mopping floors etc. So she came each week to mop floors and change the bed and clean bathrooms. When we had the fire this summer and a cleaning crew from Service Master came to clean up they needed extra help. I recommended my friend for a helper. She started with the crew on my house and this has worked into a full-time job for her which had looked for many months. They love her and she has been able to save enough to rent a house (were living in one room-5 people) just this week and move her family in. While I miss her help with my cleaning, I am so happy for her and for the first time in about three years they are certain to have happy holidays. We continue to be friends and I have gotten her started on quilting too.