Things that make it all worthwhile

Yesterday was a rough day at work for me. One of my coworkers has a husband seriously ill and will be off work for a couple of weeks (we're not sure exactly how long), so of course all her work gets dumped on me.

I got called in to work yesterday evening at a program called Project Mend. It's basically a girl scout troop at the women's detention center, so the moms can see their daughters and do activities and stuff. Well last night there was a new girl that we weren't sure if she would come because her mother and father don't exactly get along and the father doesn't want the mother to see her kids. She showed up and it was a complete surprise to the mother. There was hugging and kissing and crying. We found out the mom hadn't seen her daughter in almost 2 years and the only reason the dad let her come was because the daughter wanted to be involved in Girl Scouting.

That makes all the crap I had to go through yesterday worthwhile.