Charity begins at home, but should not end there

The above quote comes from Thomas Fuller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fuller) although many people have said something similar. I think they would all happily admit they were wrong if they found out what happened to me this morning. Sandie was off for the day and I was babysitting all three children for the first time. I have to confess I didn’t have everything under complete control. So much so that when we all went for a family trip to the rubbish tip this morning, it was only a few hours later that I realized that I had mixed up the bin bags and my charitable donation of some old clothes and shoes for the local Emmaneus organization (http://www.emmaus-france.org/) was sitting alongside some rather smelly stuff in the bottom of a large skip……. And er, yes, you guessed it, my rather smelly stuff, or rather that of MGC, is now sitting alongside someone else’s charitable donations of old clothes and shoes. Oops. A sleepless night of worry lies ahead as I count down the minutes to the re-opening of the tip tomorrow morning.