Peg Kerr's Journal

TweetsGiving is a global celebration that aims to change the world through the power of gratitude. Follow these simple steps to bring your grateful heart to the party:

1. Share your Gratitude: Share whatever you're thankful for on Twitter, your blog, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, or blip.fm. Include the #tweetsgiving tag and a link to TweetsGiving so we can share your grateful heart with the world!

I do have a great deal to be thankful for this year. It's been a hard year in many ways, but I've been reminded time and time again that my family is supported by caring people, both our personal friends and family, and people like you, many of whom I've never even met, but who still care and reach out to us. I have a wonderful, loving husband, and two beautiful, smart, kind, creative, strong and funny girls who are growing more wonderful every day. The girls are doing well in school, and we're beginning the college search process for Fiona. I'm going back to karate! We're still managing to pay all of our bills on time, even after a year and a half of unemployment (with scrimping and saving and gifts and the food shelf and kind people like our orthodontist who allowed us to cut our monthly payment, etc.) Friends continue to send us job leads. My car still actually runs, which I'm pretty much convinced must be a miracle. And I've discovered the Decrease Worldsuck project this year, which has added so much joy to my life. And I'm having a blast with Alternity.

2. Give: Contribute in honor of whatever you're thankful for. Epic Change says: each $10 donation brings us 1 brick closer to a classroom, orphanage/ dormitory, library and cafeteria at the #twitterkids' school in Arusha, Tanzania, or helps us fund a future Epic Change project. I say, if you have another charity you'd like to contribute to instead, go for it.

3. Spread the love. Most importantly, repeat step #1 as often as possible until noon EST on Thursday, November 26th, 2009. Then:

4. Follow the Story on Facebook, Twitter, or by subscribing to a feed: epicchange_feed/epicchange. (Note: If you follow @1800Flowers on Twitter, they'll donate $1 per new follower to Epic Change.

( What I did today to make the world a better place )