Do you know how awesome the feeling is not to have to worry if you can get all the groceries you want from the store?! That (unless it's super duper unhealthy) you don't have to tell your child we can't get the snacks she wants?!
I remember being so flipping happy when we had enough money just to pay for bread and milk, and we paid in coins! Times when I had to tell Sammy that we couldn't get milk right now because "the store was out". I remember how ashamed I was that I couldn't even get my 3-year-old baby milk!
This weekend really brought that home! When we were getting our weekly groceries. Sammy pretty much had free rein to get her own food for the first time. She had a ball grabbing things and just putting it into the cart! Explaining why she wanted the item and for most things being allowed to plop it in the cart without having to put it back! She was skipping around the store like she owned it.
And do you know what it was like for me to see that and know that I was part of making that possible! And not only that but it was because I helped others when they needed me in their lives!? It was hard work don't get me wrong but it was worth it! And all it took to make this happen for her, for ME was someone believing in me!
You can do this too you know, by helping others! I believe in you!