When you know you've done something right

Dinner conversations at our house range from barking at one another about wretched table manners to conversations about humanity, as was the one tonight. Reed asked if big cities do toy drives for kids. We started talking about how various service organizations and companies try to help their communities by doing such things, just like his Boy Scout pack did by collecting toys to be given to local families in need. McKenna was eating through the beginning of the conversation, and when we thought the conversation was over, she piped in to say, as a simple matter of fact, "Helping others is the key to life."