Originally Posted by weegot5kiz

I posted something, as a few will know, on the daily insights, a few days ago. Recently I had talked to the social worker at our village hall. We talked about my MS and the fact i am remodeling my house stripping kitchen cabinets, made of beautiful oak, why do people paint cabinets made of wood, put in a new floor, redoing a bath, stripping a big garage and big shed, and landscaping.

even though my name says i have 5 kids, they are not available,
high functioning autistic child one is, lets just say its difficult to work with him on these projects although he did take to the painting. autistic kid two is actually working and doing well kid 3 is already in college he is going with the trimester plan kid 4 is in the airforce, kid five has plans to wed and is working 10-12 hr days 6 days a week, thus i explained was my dilemma, I am doing it all by myself and killing myself.

well the social worker got in touch with a church group, who came here from Detroit, and a group from here went to Detroit. they help underpriv and elderly and cases like mine.

two days ago at 10 am they show up unannounced and proceeded to do all the landscaping, beautifully. needless to say i was a total lost i was sobbing from their generous and kind act and this dang MS and that dang pride thing, from not being able to do it all anymore(hush, i dont want to here it, I am slowly coming to grips with the pride issue, its just hard i have always been the one who gives and helps and does what is needed, never liked to ask for help, i am working on it,, anywho.....)

So as they left, they asked should they come by thurs, I said I was going to paint on weds and would let him know how well it went, and that i would rather he find someone else on the list to help that really needs it, they had done a lot already.

confirmed the above with him late on weds i was ok and almost done painting had 3/4 of a 2.5 car garage left and should be fine, so chris and I go out this morning and started to finish our first coat of paint, again the group shows up and help throw the second coat on the shed and garage, deb went out and got some extra supplies for painting, which we informed them they had to accept those for their stock pile of tools. showed the kids pics of the wolves, the eldest boy had seen them, the first time, and must of told the others. The group leader Dave, use to help manage a minor league baseball team, he loves baseball, so two days ago I had shown him my prized copy of who is who in baseball 1932 along with about 25 paper clippings, needless to say he was drooling we look it all over

today after showing all the kids pics of the wolves, I pulled Dave to the side today and handed him one of my most cherished possessions, I explained to him my kids do not appreciate baseball like we both do and I wanted this to go to someone who would appreciate it, it was my grandfathers.

i suggested he could get the clippings framed in plain frames and those would be worth a nice penny, for donating to the church, and if he wanted to do a blind auction on the book and clippings at the next fair or rummage sale they hold, please do so, and help the church out. Needless to say i have been graced with their blessings of kindness and caring to the point i keep getting all teary eyed, it was really wonderul of them.

Thought i would share this with everyone, and let you know there is still goodness and kindness out there. to everyone