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THANK YOU
By Stephanie Milfeld
It's December! We have made it to the end of 2020!!
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This year has been hard. Some of us lost our jobs, our businesses, our relationships, our loved ones. Some of us felt how hard it was to transition to digital learning with our children; we felt how hard it was to juggle our jobs and family all under one roof and not being able to leave. We felt the mental toll it took on us to wear a mask and not be able to see a simple smile from someone else in public, or the fact that if our children were able to go back to school, we don’t know what their teacher even looks like. The mental toll of vacations being cancelled or trying to figure out a way to vacation during a pandemic.
I have so much to be thankful for this year including my health, my home, my family, but also for all the things I took for granted. I am thankful for the doctors and nurses who work endlessly, for the grocery store workers stocking toilet paper, for the Instacart driver delivering my groceries so I don’t have to go to the store with my kids, for the first responders who haven't blinked twice at doing their job in the ever changing environment, for the teachers who are working their tail off to continue to give our students the best experience possible while continuing to be asked to do more and more and more without a break…we see you… I see you, and I appreciate it. All of your hard work is not going unnoticed. I am also so beyond thankful for all of YOU who continue to shop small during these trying times, especially for mom and pop businesses. Thank you for thinking of us and shopping local—it really means a lot.
Don’t forget to stop in Z and Q – A Children’s Boutique, located at 1037 New York Ave. — open 7 days a week @zandqboutique…and check out these awesome opportunities to visit downtown this month:
Dec 5th – Christmas Parade and Craft Show
Dec 12th – 10am–2pm – A Christmas Market Downtown St. Cloud
SANTA will be there for pictures and Harmony Community School PTO will be at both this event and the Monthly Market doing gift wrapping for donation. So come down shop and have it wrapped and ready to put under the tree before you even get home!
