Acts of Service and Kindness- Week 4

Week 4- Taking coloring books and crayons to hospital waiting rooms

Getting everything together & talking about what we were doing this week

Ready to go into the hospital

In one of the 3 waiting rooms we visited- labor & delivery

Acts of Kindness and Service- Week 3

Week 3- Sidewalk Chalk Love

Writing sweet messages to friends on their driveways.  He drew some of the pics, but I did all the words (we had to hurry so nobody would see us!)

A few friends were out of town, so we will have to go make another trip later this summer!

It was HOT, so we stopped for Sonic slushes between houses

Left some small gifts for his friends too!  His favorite part was knocking on the door and then running to the car (so we could drive away before they saw us!)

You are rock stars!

Addy & Ava's mom sent us a pic of her surprised little girls.... granted Austin will probably ruin the surprise by tell Addy it was us!  Oh well.

Father's Day

Acts of Kindness and Service- Week 2

Week 2-  We made cookies for our mail woman & librarians, as well as notes to hide in library books for others to find.

Making cookies

Packaged up and ready to deliver

Examples of notes to surprise future readers

Picking books

Hiding the notes (Austin's favorite part)

Running out to the mail woman- she was shocked.  Honestly she thought we were kidding & it took her a few minutes to speak.

My favorite part of this week- the next day we received a hand delivered thank you note to our door from the mail woman.  Glad to have made Gloria's day!

Botanical Gardens

We made a trip to the botanical garden today~  always fun to look at the beautiful flowers, explore, and get a little exercise!

Acts of Kindness and Service- Week 1

A few months ago I decided that this summer we needed to dedicate one day a week (Mondays) to acts of kindness & service, so I've been researching & planning some ideas.  I'll be posting our activity each week with pics- I would like for Austin to be able to look back at what we did & also to give others ideas :)

Week 1-  We made thank you notes & treats to give to those in the community that serve us (i.e. waitress, bank teller, person working at the dry cleaners or grocery store, etc.)  

Austin helped cut the paper, glue, punch holes, tape, tie ribbon, and "sample candy."

He was very proud and excited to hand out!  Although I will say that he gets very shy when the time comes.  

Finished product

Everyone has responded so positively to Austin when he hands them out- asking his name, thanking him by name, telling him how thoughtful the gesture was, etc.  The first experience was with our Terminex inspector & you would have thought we gave him the winning lotto ticket- so grateful for something as small as a piece of candy with a nice note.  It tells you a lot about the type of world we live in when people constantly say, "this is the nicest thing that has happened to me all day long."