It fills my heart with gratitude and makes me believe in the goodness of people.  I makes me look at my children and be so proud of who they are becoming.

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Yesterday, I was at Wal-Mart, doing my grocery shopping.  We were in the ice-cream aisle.  Imagine 4 kiddos, each trying to pick out the flavor of ice cream that they wanted, while an older gentleman is trying to tell me a story.  I am trying to be attentive and listen while keeping an eye on a 2 year old and 4 year old, who are thrilled to be out of shopping cart prison and it is only the 2nd aisle we have come to.

The man is telling me about a young man and doing good and on a mission to do good.  I thought he was telling me something that had happened to him.  I am trying to process what he is saying, with 2 little ones asking “Can I get this one, Mom?” and “Mom, can I get that pink one, way up there?”  They can’t read yet.  G3 (my 4 yr old lil man) goes by the picture, while Miss G4 (2 yrs old) wants one that is pink, the ice cream doesn’t have to be pink, although she is thrilled if it is but she wants the package to be pink.  Trying to pick a package with some pink on it and a flavor that she will eat can be a little challenging.  OK, sorry I got a little off track.  Back to the older gentleman.  He hands me some money.  I am sure the look of confusion on my face, confused him since he thought he was clearly explaining his story to me.  He points to G1 (12 years old) and says “YES, that young man, now buy him whatever he wants.”  I still looked puzzled and he re-explains that he is on a 29 day mission to find someone each day who has done something good and he saw my son help a man manuever his shopping cart and move a large Wal-Mart cart so the man could get by.  My son goes up and shakes this mans hand and thanks him.  Have you ever had anything like that happen to you?

Back in Kansas City there was a guy who was known as THE Secret Santa and he would go to the poorer areas and just walk up to people and hand them hundreds or thousands of dollars of his own personal money.  He didn’t just do it to one person but many each year.  He would  let the channel 9 news know what he was going to be doing and they would go along, taping people’s reactions, all the while keeping the Secret Santa’s identity a total secret.  Not even his family knew that it was him.  This went on for 26 years.  It all started when he had just lost his job and didn’t know what to do.  Read the REST of the STORY.
While talking about Christmas–I was visiting Be different Act Normal and she was talking about her problem with storing Christmas lights. I made this suggestion and she loved it so I am passing it on to all of you.What if you got some swim noodles and made a little slit in one end to stuff the cord into, then wrap the lights, cut the noodle off, leaving a little room to cut another slice into the noodle to stuff the other end of the lights, that would make the noodle small enough to fit into a box.  You could then do it again and again till you had used up all of that noodle.  Just an idea.

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