Devastating fire

I would like to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for the support and kindness shown to my girls and I.

Initially I was very embarrassed about receiving charity…especially being so close to Christmas. But our wonderful loving friends and family have made me realise how very loved we are. We are very humbled and words cannot not express the gratitude we feel. This has given us a chance to start again the one thing we love and do as a family, to build memories and connections.

We have had a process of emotions through this ordeal. My children have never had a summer in town, they have spent every summer out at the beach. They were so devastated and felt quite lost. I needed to help lift their spirits. We are now able to turn this around to an exciting new venture and give them something to look forward to because of many people's generosity and kindness.

It started with an emotional clean up of the rubble at our campsite. The only thing that survived was our tent pegs. So with a positive spirit, we started with tent pegs as our first camping item! From there, with many people's warm generosity, we have been given all sorts of camping equipment and are now excitedly focusing on building up our camping gear for next year, a whole new camping experience.

Thank you once again from the bottom of our hearts for the love and support. Christmas blessings to you all.