Giving Back

There is so much negativity in the news and each day you hear about more and more people losing their jobs or homes. I feel so fortunate to be able to pay my bills and to be working. Well, sometimes when my alarm alarm goes off in the morning I don't feel very fortunate, but really I am. I decided to adopt a less fortunate family to sponsor for the holidays and asked around work to see if anyone wanted to join me. I contacted The Moore Center, which helps individuals with developmental disabilities. Several of us got together and most people gave me money so today I spent three hours shopping for our family. It's a grandmother who lives with her hard working son who has custody of his two boys, 4 and 6. They struggle at this time of the year to put food on the table. Well, $200 later and we will be giving them lots of food to fill their cupboards plus a $50 gift card to buy a turkey and other perishable items for Christmas dinner. And a few gifts for Christmas morning. A few other people shopped this weekend on their own and we'll add that to these items too. It felt so good to do this and as I was being cut off with grocery carts and driving around looking for parking spaces I had a smile on my face. That's right, I was happy because I knew I was helping.





They also have a cat that the grandmother adores so I figured if they have a hard time feeding themselves they probably have a hard time feeding the cat too so I got something for the kitty too.