So I only have a few moments because I have to leave to go pick up my daughter from F - yay!!! I am getting her back half hour earlier today which I am, of course, thrilled about!!! Every minute away from her is a very long minute wherein I feel a limb is missing....
But wanted to share with you some RAKs I have been doing in the hopes that it will motivate others to do the same. (RAK = random act of kindness) :) I have been very blessed in my life - very -and especially recently so (I still have not had time to post about my specific story but promise, promise, promise I will very soon). One of my vows was to never take it for granted and to try my best to pay it forward.
I started small: paid for the person behind me at Starbucks. It cost me about $4 and I am hoping put a smile on someone's face. (It out one on mine!) I then knew of a newly-single mom who had to move out of her home and needed supplies: I gave her all of the moving boxes I had and helped her load them in her car; it saved her a lot of money and hopefully reminded her that as a single momma, she is not alone! Today, I gave away my dryer. It works perfectly but I have a new one and this one had been sitting in my basement "in case" I needed it. I saw a fellow momma post in one of my Facebook groups that she needed a dryer. When I asked her why, she explained that she has three kiddos and her dryer takes three hours to dry five shirts! Imagine the frustration?! She's been hanging all of their clothes out to dry - probably not so much fun in the winter. I messaged her and told her I had a dryer here with her name on it - my father helped me get it upstairs and I cleaned it up so that it looked like new. Her husband came and picked it up this afternoon. I attached a card to it for her and her family challenging them to pay it forward with a RAK as well - she just reached out to me and promised to do so!
It's addicting - I swear!! I feel like my eyes are always on the lookout for someone that I can help, even with something very small. It made my day today, knowing that a momma somewhere out there tonight will be able to throw a load of wash into the dryer and hopefully breathe a sigh of relief. She can then go spend ten extra minutes with her kiddies that she has been spending hanging clothes! That makes me happy :)
As does going to get my baby girl right now....have a great, long weekend and go commit a RAK! You'll see what all the fuss is about!
Love,
Momeo and Juliette
XOXO
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