The DeSoto, Texas food pantry operates all year, every year. On Wednesday we received an urgent email - - there were four slips from the angel tree that had not been returned, could we help? And it had to be done immediately, the party was scheduled for today.
Let me digress for a moment. When my own daughter was small, we were a military family and money wasn’t just tight, it was nearly non-existent. I never knew until recently that daughter’s one desire at Christmas every year was for a ballerina tutu. But she never included it on her list to Santa, because she realized, even at that tender age, that Christmas gifts had to consist of shoes, warm clothes, a winter jacket with sleeves long enough to cover growing arms. Twenty years later, when her own daughter came along, a pink tutu was one of the first things she bought for her, and whenever anybody asked, it headed the list. Daughter today is a Neo-Natal Intensive Care Nurse, with a recently earned BS degree (HOORAY!!!). Granddaughter graduates this year from the University of Houston, on track for a future as a PA.
And so, when the angel request came in this week, I responded that I wanted to buy for the 7-year-old girl who said she wanted “anything for a princess.” Yesterday I took a pink tiara to the Food Pantry, and handed it to chairman Suzanne Phillips. Another donor had only moments earlier brought in a “princess” doll for the child.
The need for food and clothes is always there, and we respond with donations each month throughout the year. But there are those of us who also recognize that a heart’s desire for the frivolous is sometimes just as important as the head’s need for the sensible. And today, that child, along with hundreds of others in our area, will have a reason to smile.
Information about DeSoto Food Pantry at link below.
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2008/oct/23/desoto-food-pantry-seeks-community-support/
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