by Misha Thompson

While our staff and volunteers have been taking a much needed break this last week, Lionel and I have been spiffing up the office trying to make it a bit cozier for all the folks who work so hard at getting all the gifts out the door.

The last four months (just over eighteen weeks to be exact) we have moved offices twice already and this last move never really left us time to get settled in…let alone unpack. So that is what we did!

A lot of the things we hung up and used were wedding gifts to Lionel and I almost ten years ago and some other things around the office were given to us by generous friends or local business folks. We painted some big canvases and put up some of our favourites quotes, we brought in a family heirloom table that is rumoured to be a few hundred years old to warm things up and we put out a few organizational touches to make the ‘envelope stuffing station’ run a lot smoother.

This is the table that – if you send or receive a gift through Giving Anonymously - the address and details will get checked, double checked and checked again – and then have an actual check stuffed into it and it will get sealed and it will be sorted and sent out from here.

That water is just to keep us going!

If you happen to talk to Sarah, this is most likely where she would be sitting.

Or if you happen to work with Pete, this is one of our favourite quotes he may be sitting under.

And this is where Lionel sits, under a quote that means a lot to us.

“Life is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.” ~ Helen Keller

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