Think about your day.
Not, perhaps, today, with its holiday hustle and bustle. Just an average day, one of hundreds such days in your year.
Think about your breakfast, whether it's steel-cut oatmeal with berries or a poppy seed bagel and a little bit of cream cheese. Think about your drive to work, the car radio set to your favorite station.
Think about dinner with your family, hearing how their day went and what the plans are for tomorrow.
Think about the easy pleasure of an evening in front of the TV, watching your favorite show or rooting for your favorite team.
Think about getting a call from someone you love and haven't heard from in a while, or making a call to someone who always seems to care, no matter how trivial your complaints really are.
Think about all the every day things you take for granted, and how much richer and better your life is because of them.
Now think about a child in foster care. Think of the eight year old girl deprived of the security of living with her mommy or her daddy. Think of the eleven year old boy who isn't sure in September that he'll be with his teachers and classmates all the way through June.
Think of the four year old too young to understand why she has to live with people she doesn't know, or the teenager who wants to be like everyone else but can't, because everyone else has a family and he doesn't.
Think of being a stranger in the house you live in. Think of home being something other people get to have.
The Children's Enrichment Committee of Orange County, NY thinks about our children in foster care. It can't give them those every day things we take for granted. But it can grant them small things to make their lives a little better. It could be holiday presents, a doll for a six year old girl who dreams of one, or a gift card for a teenager who knows what he wants but can't afford it.
It could be a week in summer camp or a day on a class trip. It could be dance lessons or sports club fees or even something as basic as shoes and socks.
Think how it would never occur to you to think about shoes and socks.
Please help the CEC with your donation.
Children's Enrichment Committee
PO Box 297
Middletown, NY 10940
All donations are tax deductible.
For the Orange County children in need, we thank you.
