Random Acts of Kindness

I sat down to blog earlier this morning, but stopped because I ran out of time. I was going to share what I experienced at the Canada Day celebration on Sunday, but it will be postponed until tomorrow and shelved like the rest of the hundreds of posts I have running through my head right now. I want to share something else with our readers!

You see, we were the recipients of a random act of kindness today!

We took a trip to the recycling depot in our six seater stroller... IN THE POURING RAIN!! Our stroller has no cover, so as usual we were dressed head to toe in our rain gear. It was on our way back that a car pulled up beside us, and the driver rolled down her window and asked if we would like an umbrella. You see, she had purchased a bunch of umbrellas and was driving around the neighbourhood looking for people stuck in the rain with no umbrella! So she proceeded to give each child an umbrella. It was so kind of her, and it brought a smile to each child's face!

Along the way back to the centre we talked about Random Acts of Kindness' and how they brighten people's days. This act has instigated the children's interest in wanting to do Random Acts for other people. We discussed some ideas and we plan to follow through on those ideas. A couple the children thought of were: 

Drawing pictures and giving them to people walking past us on our walks

Picking a WHOLE BUNCH of blackberries and giving them to someone

Visiting the grandmas and the grandpas in the nursing home down the road

Singing songs really loud on our walks

Thank you kind lady for the umbrellas. You BRIGHTENED our day!