Day 5

It's Tuesday and back to work for me. No sick kids at home today! I have a staff meeting tonight and our agency is donating food for our local food pantry and also donating items to the local women's shelter. So my AOK for others today is taken care of. I went through my stockpile of toiletries and cleaning products and came up a grocery bag full of items.  I am a 'coupon queen' and was able to get most of these products for free or less than a dollar. I'm glad to be helping my community since our area has really been hit hard with the downturn in the economy. For my AOK for me, I finally opened a gift my sister gave me last year. It's a peppermint based lotion you rub on your temples that is supposed to reduce stress. I don't know if it was the lotion or the temple massage, but I did feel more relaxed at the end of a busy day.