Today my two grown daughters stayed home from work (one had off, one took off). We went out to breakfast (an easy low carb meal if you're careful about toast and leave off the potatoes). Then we did some errands. One of the errands was to drop off sports equipment, lined paper, games, hand held games, hand made blankets, toiletries, and other fun things to occupy time at a local pediatric (and teen) psychiatric ward at a local hospital. They have kids as young as five there that have problems and are admitted. My younger daughter used to volunteer there and saw a need for a variety of items so several times a year we donate what we've gathered or made. Locally an agency is collecting filled backpacks for school children in the area. So we went to the store and bought six backpacks. Three camo and three flowered and filled them. Notebook, paper, pens, pencils, markers, crayons, glue sticks, folders, pencil cases, erasers, rulers, scissors. And other fun things. Food is so expensive these days I don't know how young families afford things. In fact, going into the store we saw some one chased down and caught for shoplifting. Things are hard out there and I don't hear any presidential candidate saying what they're going to do to turn things around. That makes me nervous. But right now my kitchen table is filled, not with food, but school supplies in bright colors. When I have days like the other day when I felt invisible, I think of the different things I give (and I love being invisible then) to help and that makes me smile. So...I didn't think of my post of the other day as depressing although many others did ...just a too harsh observation of my reality I guess.

Spending a day with my "girls" was a very good thing!