What a pleasure it is to be celebrating a blog milestone today!
It is a lot of work to keep a blog going & I'm so thankful to you followers & readers who make it so worthwhile! Many thanks to the 700 "Google Friend Connect" friends & nearly 200 Google+ followers for your support.
As my gift to you, I have been working on
{The number is for the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims in Newtown, Connecticut USA -
one random act of kindness to honor the life of each.}
The plan: NOT to include things I do for my own children & my Hunny {because I would have been done in about a day!}, but rather to look outside my everyday routine. If possible, I tried to help strangers. Here are a couple of examples:
- Let people in front of me in line
- Picked up garbage on the walk home from church
- Gave an elderly man a ride. He was waiting for the bus {in the cold} in front of his sister's assisted living home. This was one of my favorites - he was SO delightful to talk to!
- Rounded up some stray grocery store carts & put them away {my son used to have this job, so he made me aware of it}
- Gave the garbage man a soda because there were lots of cars parked in our circle & he had a hard time maneuvering around them - it made him smile . . .
While trying to do nice things for strangers, I noticed something - it was really hard! Even with all the terrible stuff that happens in the world, most people are so kind. When I tried to do something for others, sometimes they had the same idea & beat me to it!
I had so much fun doing this. Thank you so much for giving me
something wonderful to celebrate! I heart you!
Shared at these awesome parties:
So inspired by you! Thank you so much for sharing your kind acts, I want to try. You amaze me in so many ways!
ReplyDeleteDarling Ashley, I really appreciate you for taking the time to leave your sweet comment. Your message is a compliment coming from you because I know you go out of your way to make the world a better place. Thanks for reading!
DeleteWarmly, Michelle
What an inspiring thing to do. I really need to look at the world around me more often. I'll start today! This is my first visit to your blog and I can't even remembered what I clicked to get here but I'm glad I did. I'll be back!
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely Sunday,
Robin
Welcome Robin, so glad you stopped by & I appreciate your sweet comment. Happy Sunday to you also!
DeleteWarmly, Michelle
I love it!!! I especially love the number 26 to honor the SH Community. You are right ... keeping up a blog is really hard, but I'm so glad you do it! xoxo jules
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you write your blog as well, Jules - it's such a bright spot on the internet! AND of course - as you know - I'm so thankful for your inspiration in the first place about doing random acts of kindness to celebrate blog milestones. You rock!!
DeleteWarmly, Michelle
You are the all-time sweetest! What wonderful gestures! It reminds me of that quote ~ The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest of intentions. Congrats on 700! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for stopping by Pam & for your sweet comment. I'm such a fan of simple details & I'm so grateful to have a great blog like yours to enjoy.
DeleteWarmly, Michelle