To: Lady in frozen vegetable isle of the grocery store.....

I saw that dirty look, that sneer that you gave my little girl yesterday, & to be quite honest I'm offended that you would judge her without knowing her, think bad of her without asking where such a comment could have come from. I would rather you'd have asked instead of predetermining that she was just wrong for making the offending statement. You see, my Mom is mentally ill & has been living with us on & off for the past 4 years now & my daughter has seen & heard things that most children of her tender age of 8 should never have to deal with. Her innocent comment of "Thank God Grandma's not with us anymore", was simply because I was going to try something new for dinner, something I've never done before, a beef stir fry with an assortment of vegetables. While my Mom was living with us I would have never attempted such a thing because she wouldn't eat vegetables, no matter how I camouflaged them! You have NO idea what we've been through with my Mom, you weren't here to console my daughter while she watched her Grandmother hurl her own feces at me while she berated me with such things as "You F*&%ing B%tch clean up my Sh$t, you F*&%ng Wh&re!!!". You weren't here when I had to explain to her that Grandma could no longer live with us because I couldn't handle her anymore by myself, or try to explain that Grandma is sick "in the head" for lack of a better explanation to an 8 year old little girl, who happens to be "crazy" about her Grandma, & seems to think that her Benadryl will make Grandma better (because when she is sick with allergies we tell her it is congestion in her head!). I know that you aren't the only one that would judge, we are ALL guilty of doing that at some point, I am just hoping that we can ALL give one another a break once in awhile. We ALL have situations & circumstances in our lives that not everyone understands or has ever had to deal with. So the next time you over hear part of a conversation or a comment that causes TRUE concern for someone ask before you judge, or at least think that it could be coming from a place of confusion, sadness, hurt, loss, etc.