Bringing a new baby home is enough reason to get stressed.

When the baby is born in the middle of the winter, with a snowstorm coming up and with the furnace not functioning, this can cause a panic attack.

A few years ago, a Minneapolis family welcomed their second baby.

Jesse and Maria Hulscher from Willmar already had a two-year-old son, when Maria gave birth to their second child.

Mother and baby were still in the hospital, and father and older brother were impatiently waiting for them to come home.

Then, it happened.

Suddenly, the furnace broke down and the house was left with no heating.

The worst thing of all? The weather forecast had predicted a snowstorm.

Jesse started to panic.

He called a local business right away, hoping that they could fix it as soon as possible.

“He said ‘the fan’s not working, the furnace isn’t working, my wife is in the hospital, we just had a baby yesterday,’” Magnuson co-owner Craig Aurand recalled. “I just said take it easy, we’ll be right there.”

Indeed, only a while later, the repairman from the company arrived at the Hulscher family home to fix the problem.

Within an hour, it was working.

Jesse was relieved. The repairman was happy that they could fix the problem so quickly and that Jesse’s family wouldn’t have to worry about a potential snowstorm.

In the days that followed, the family waited for the invoice to be mailed to them.

A few days later, they received the invoice by mail.

But something was missing.

There was no amount included.

“I opened it up and looked at the receipt and it said, ‘no charge, take care of the new baby,’” Jesse recalled. “I was like, what? No. This can’t be real. And he’s like, ‘I know I can’t believe it either,’” Maria said.

You see, the company had wished to offer the furnace repair as a gift for the new baby that had just been added to the family.

“I didn’t know if it was a boy or a girl, if I should buy pink or blue,” Aurand said. “So, let’s get that child heat. How does that sound?”

Indeed, this was the best present the family could have received that day.

Making sure that both their children- and especially the vulnerable newborn- would be safe from the cold that winter was the couple’s top priority.

And, thanks to the company, they didn’t have to worry about it. They didn’t even have to worry about paying for the repair.

But the local business didn’t do it for the PR.

They just wanted to be kind.

And, as Jesse and Maria said, they were planning on paying forward the good deed in the future.

You see, one small act of kindness can go a long way.

It’s how a community actually works.

Learn more about the repairman’s heartwarming act of kindness in the interview below!

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