Mixed emotions

This time of year is crazy. Holidays, shopping, cooking, managing life with food allergies and so on. I often feel bad for my daughter because her life is not easy and it's  not going to be easy. Well, life is never easy but it's even more difficult because of the food allergies. Then there is the guilt that I live with. I know, I did nothing to cause the allergies. I'm still a mom, I still have guilt. Can't help it. This morning I went to Target to do some shopping, grocery and holiday. For the second year in a row I ended up in Target on a special day. There were many police officers there helping children and families do some holiday shopping. Santa and Mrs. Claus were there too. There was a T.V reporter there also. The parking lot was packed with police cars. I started walking up and down the aisles gathering my things. I passed Santa. He wished me a Merry Christmas and then stopped to talk to someone behind me. There was a mom and child. Santa gave the little boy a candy cane. The little boy seemed to be a little scared of Santa but he took the candy cane and enjoyed it. Of course, this was adorable. Then I thought, glad the kids aren't with me because I would have to say no thank you to the candy cane. That would have been awesome....... :(
I moved on and heard an adorable conversation between a child and Santa. He asked Santa why he was there because we all know Santa lives at the North Pole. Santa replied that he came down to visit him and the other children etc. It was very sweet and brought tears to my eyes.
My family is so fortunate. We have a roof over our heads and food to eat. I can buy my children presents for the holidays. I have so many good things in my life. More importantly I have so, so many good people in my life.