A Feel Good Kind of Day

[amyurban]

Today was our annual family tradition of helping out local needy families for the holiday either through my church, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Washington County or my hubby and daugther's church, The United Church of Christ here in Forest Grove. This year, it was here in town, at the UCC church that we did the family food and gift baskets. We helped pack, organize and got delivered 20 LARGE parcels out to 20 families in the general area today. There was a crew of about 10 of us.

I helped the person who organizes this every year to make sure that each family got the basic necessities plus something extra to make a special holiday meal and that each child got a present to open and the adults mostly got gift cards to go and spend somewhere. Cassandra helped with getting the food boxes together, and other than help to organize the families parcels, I wrapped gifts in between that.

Hubby delivered, personally, 5 parcels, some as far as 20 miles away, in the snow and ice. Took him two hours to do them all but hey, he has a 4x4 truck with chains. He knows how to drive in this stuff. We got there at 9:45 and were done by 2 in the afternoon. Not a bad way to spend a day.

Tomorrow, on the way to my Orthopedist appointment to get my second shot of Synvisc in my knee, we are going to deliver the last parcel and gifts to a family that lives only 6 blocks from the Orthopedist's office.

I'm glad that even with the worst storm in 40 years here, people made it out to help others less fortunate. It makes me have more faith for the future of the human race.

[Lori]

Thanks for sharing that, Amy - it sounds like your family has its priorities in the right place. We can all take a lesson here...

BTW, my mother-in-law was very involved with the Unitarian church before she passed away.