We had one.

Sitting in our bedroom until today when we gave it away.

What’s that, you say?

You haven’t heard the story about the housewife who entered a photo competition and won a camera, a printer and $500 to her favourite charity?

Oh, it’s a good one.

This was photo that won:

in the employees section of the Canon Creative For A Cause competition, because the husband went and got a job with Canon, long before the housewife ever dreamed of becoming a photographer.

The prize was nowhere near the poole of the public competition but the housewife thought $500, a camera and a printer was not a bad deal.

The money was given, today, to their local blood bank.

$500 is just a drop in the ocean for a charity as large as the Australian Red Cross Blood Service but to their local area, it might mean a new comfortable chair or funds for things that are needed in the kitchen.

It might not seem like much, in this day and age but for the housewife, it was a big deal, heck, it was almost a week’s worth of groceries for her brood.

Anyhow, the housewife and the Canon employee and the large brood handed over the giant cheque today and the girl who  is infused with the IVIG every month posed for some photo ops.

It was pretty cool for the housewife to see that she could give something back,

she only wished she could have matched the $500

or given another five to the hospital

or the Australian Immune Deficiency Foundation, which is trying to find its feet.

Still, it felt pretty good.

Afterwards there was cake (and gluten free biscuits for the girl) because it coincided with the blood bank’s 80th birthday

and that is the end of the story of the giant cheque.