Team Chaos
Lovin' The Homestead
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What a beautiful thread! One random act of kindness I received that I think of so often was this: I had my little girl, about 2 at the time, and my grandmother (who is blind and has had several strokes, so impulse control is really an issue for her) at a busy store on a Saturday (something I tried to avoid at all costs, but so it goes) we were working through the list and I was attempting to keep Gram and kiddo from getting run over by carts, wandering too far etc. Of course, I didn't have the right shopping list and was short on cash, so I was trying to whittle it down while Gram filled the cart up as fast as I could empty it. Suffice to say, it was a stressful situation and I was trying to smile through it. We finally made it to the cash registers and my Gram took my daughter's hand and headed for the door without me! I panicked and left my cart apologizing to the cashier- I was so scared that one or both of them were going to get smooshed by a car or lost in the lot! I caught up with them and negotiated that they would wait in the car while I went in to pay- when I turned around, there was a young man carrying our bags. His mom put her arms around me and told me that she had cared for her grandmother and her own young sons and had remembered what a miracle it was to get through a day with a smile on her face. She said seeing us reminded her of all the good times that were there, under the errands and to-do lists, and how much comfort the memory brought her.. she bought our groceries, which was incredibly nice, but that hug and that reassurance that the every day is the sacred meant so so so much to me!