Hurricane Katrina

I have so much to say, where do I begin...Well on Friday Taylor had a field trip with school and she wanted me to go. So one of my good friends Nicole watched Michael and Alyssa for me and I went with Taylor on her field trip. The day before Tay's teacher gave me a number to another child's mom in her class and said she was looking for some one to carpool with, so I came home and called her and we planned to meet at the school in the morning when we dropped off our kids. So we waited behind the busses and off we were to Catawba Science Center in Hickory, NC...This trip will forever have changed my outlook on a lot of things. Christine is her name her son Nick is in Tay's class and they just moved here a few months ago from New Orleans. Yes victims of hurricane Katrina. We talked the whole hour there and the whole hour back and in those 2 hours she made me feel like I was the luckiest person. My small 3 bedroom house now seems like a mansion. I am so lucky for the things I have and up till now I had no idea. They evacuated from their house the night before Katrina arrived assuming they would be back in a few days. She has two kids ages 7 and 2. They each packed a back pack of clothes and a few toys a piece and headed out, not knowing they would never live in their house again, not knowing that everything they had worked so hard for would not be there when they came home. Christine now lives here with her two children in a small apartment and still can not find a job. They have no toys, no new clothes and not a lot of money for food. How lucky are we???? Well Moriah, Taylor and I are going to put some put some flyers together and take them around our neighborhood, put them in Michael's pre school and hand them to the kids in Taylor's class and we are gonna collect new and used clothes, shoes, toys, and anything else we can to help get them some things they are in need of. I will also collect money and gift cards to grocery stores so they can splurge a little on some extra things. Christine has such a big heart and talking to me, someone she doesn't know had tears in her eyes. And to tell you what a big heart she has, when we got to the Science Center I walked over to pay for our tour and she had already payed for me. She was so thankful I let her ride with me that she payed for me. Here's someone who has no money to support her family and she does this. Only someone special does something like this. So we are gonna help her out. And because she lost everything even her kids pictures. Moriah is going to take their pictures for FREE!! Thanks so much Moriah that means so much to me as your friend!! What a great contribution. Let me know if there's anything anyone would like to do to help out. Thanks from the bottom of my heart...