No small 30th birthday celebration here - I have a month to be excited about what many say is a great decade - my 30s. So far, so good. I'm feeling ok and doing some reflecting, which is always healthy. Before I let myself have any sort of pity party, I am reminded of how blessed I am to see 30 years! And truly, I have a handsome, live-life-fully, incredibly generous husband that God surely created just for me, and 2 wonderful, beautiful, precious children. And I think about our sweet Leila and pray she will be able to see 30 years and that her next decade will be brighter and happier than her first. I am full of gratitude and thankful for God's grace today.
Well, we started the celebrating this past Wednesday with some of my dear friends that I have been going to a regular monthly dinner with for the past 4+ years. The 6 of us buzzed around town doing 30 acts of kindness, and we had a blast! We received some surprised looks, a few perplexing glances but mostly our acts were well-received and appreciated. It was really fun! Here's what we did with the pictures we took along the way.
The note we left with most stuff we gave out: Please enjoy this random act of kindness. Kindness is contagious. Pass it on. "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." - Ephesians 4:32
On our way with our box and bags of fun!
Our awesome driver, Emily, enjoying a cupcake shot of trail mix courtesy of Renee!
Probably the biggest surprise of the night were 2 items listed on this sweet momento from Renee - #17 - Help Lacey put together her wedding favors. #24 - Paint DT and Lacey's new nursery.
Yep, we're having a wedding and a baby! Needless to say, we had a whole lot to celebrate with Lacey's exciting news!!!!
The 30 Acts:
Memorial Regional Hospital
1. Magazines to the maternity ward
2. Baked goods for the nurses
3. Coins at vending machine
4. Roses to patients
5. “Baby girl” balloon to new dad, balloons to visiting children, group of balloons for people to take in Labor and Delivery
Dollar Tree
6. Gave money to a lady in line with a pretty full cart
7. Left random dollars throughout the store (with baby supplies, in the freezer)
Wal-Mart
8. Pick up trash/litter
9. Feed quarters into vending machine or tape to it
10. Return carts to the store
11. Gave roses to random people
Waffle House
12. Tip a waiter who hadn't served us yet (he said, "I think I'm going to cry. I've been working here a long time, and no one's ever done a thing like this.")
13. Give a rose to each waitress
Laundromat
14. Leave coins for a wash/dry load
15. Free compliments sign for the community bulletin board (Have you been working out? I love your eyes? Have you lost weight? I love your outfit!)
Chick-fila
16. Pay for someone behind you in drive thru (they paid it forward and left change for the person behind them! How cool is that?!)
Target
17. Money into diaper bag with a note
18. Money into the Love Dare book with a note
19. Stamped random greeting card envelopes in Target
20. Buy a gift card to give to someone random
21. Thanked a man for serving our country (he was in his Army fatigues)
22. Paid for someone’s coffee in the Starbucks (this woman was so tickled!)
Safe Harbor (local women's shelter)
23. Group item donation
Pregnancy Resource Center
24. Group item donation
Our Church
25. Food pantry donation
26. Northside Outreach Center clothing donation (they have a thrift store)
27. Cookies for our amazing church staff
Dropping off goodies and donations at the church.
Along the Way
28. Bless a toll booth worker (one didn't charge us for the toll! This was so fun to do because they were both so surprised! We got to bless 2 since we had to turn around...)
29. Bags of microwave popcorn left at Redbox
30. Write your husband a love note; write a note to a friend that needs encouragement
31. PRAYER over all of it and my sweet friends for joining me.
Next celebration? 5 days with my 88 year old Nana in Southport, NC. New post to come on that.
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