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<\/a>times this past year again I can not help but smile!\u00a0 Perhaps that is what makes GiGi\u2019s so special.\u00a0 We should seldom if ever be there and not be smiling.\u00a0 If we embrace the journey we all are undertaking our \u201csmiles\u201d should remind us of just how fortunate we are.\u00a0 We have been given a gift and how we handle that gift is up to us.\u00a0 This group has decided to embrace the opportunity to make a difference and to do so with a passion that is getting less and less common in today\u2019s society.\u00a0\u00a0 We are also extremely blessed to have as many volunteers as we do.\u00a0 When I watch Teah\u2019s literacy tutor interact with her it amazes me how much a volunteer can give and mean to our children and how they can love them just as we do.<\/p>\nWe have watched the worst in society play out over the news the last 72 hours and we saw another slice of it earlier today in my home town of Pella.\u00a0 Unfortunately the news cycle is much more focused on the negative than the positive however when I look at what the GiGi\u2019s family has accomplished this year I think we have a pretty \u201cdarn\u201d good story to tell.\u00a0 What a difference a small band of folks and their friends can make.<\/p>\n
The future has never been so bright for our special children and my thanks to each of you for contributing to that limitless future.\u00a0 May you all have a wonderful holiday season and most importantly a very blessed Christmas.<\/p>\n
Thank you, Friends, As I look at the list of accomplishments for 2012 at GiGi’s Playhouse Des Moines I can\u2019t help but smile.\u00a0 As I remember some of the key events and the specifics about some of those times this past year again I can not help but smile!\u00a0 Perhaps that is what makes GiGi\u2019s so special.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/desmoines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/desmoines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/desmoines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/desmoines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/desmoines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/desmoines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/desmoines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/desmoines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/desmoines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/desmoines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Troy Hugen<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"