orphans and widows

I've had a heavy heart lately. The Lord has really been working in my life lately and Satan is doing his best to thwart His work in my life. Seriously we must not forget that Satan desires nothing less than to make us ineffective in Jesus' world. I find he always uses things very close to home. He brings up things in my marriage or distracts me with my kids. And lately I have felt the Lord's pull to reach out to others more but I find that even in that I have had selfish motives.But Christ is stregthening me with His patience in dealing with me and His truth to combat Satan's lies. I've been reading in James lately and the last verse in chp. 1 has been on my mind. It's the verse that says to visit orphans and widows. I've been trying to think of pratical and realistic ideas of how to actually do that verse. "But be doers of the word"... I've been considering visiting at the nursing home once a month. I know there must be plenty of people there who rarely get visitors and I could take my kids occasionally. They love to see little people. When I took Lucy around Christmas time to pass out cards, everyone made a huge fuss over her and I just thought about how heart breaking it would be to never see a precious child. I seriously take for granted the fact that most of my day is filled with little people. Plus I really love to visit with older woman, I used to have two ladies in highschool I would go and visit occasionally and I loved it! I have also been thinking about needy children in our area, but I don't know what my role in that is going to be yet but I definately want to get involved. That may be something for the future, maybe being a foster parent or adopting but I know there must be something I can do right now. Any ideas?