'We’re really grateful for our men and women who deliver in all types of weather and especially in the holiday season when they're so busy.'
, has over the past eight years turned thanking people during the holidays into a movement called Light 'Em Up.
"Around 2011, I had two little kids at home and was a stay-at-home mom coming out of a [corporate] career," DeFeo told"GMA.""We were so focused at Christmastime on what we were getting personally and as a family that I thought, 'That’s not what I want our focus to be and how can I flip the switch?" DeFeo started by asking her daughters, 2 and 4 at the time, who they wanted to thank. The girls first thought of people like garbage men and women and postal workers and it soon grew to everyone from security guards to delivery drivers.
Courtney DeFeo's daughter Ella, 2 at the time, puts a thank you note in the mailbox for the family's mail carrier in an undated handout photo. Courtney DeFeo's daughter Ella, 2 at the time, puts a thank you note in the mailbox for the family's mail carrier in an undated handout photo."We put up a poster that said, 'Thank you for picking up our trash. We’re so grateful,'" recalled DeFeo."I also took candy canes and put little gift tags on them so the kids could walk up to a security guard or someone and say thank you and hand it to them.
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