To celebrate my 25th birthday, I wanted to do something GRAND. Some big huge grand thing that I would always remember happened for my 25th birthday, and since I read blogs, I found the PERFECT idea!
I decided to complete 25 intentional acts of kindness. This was the plan:
1.Volunteer from 4:00-6:30 at Feed My Starving Children
2.Bring cookies to the fire department with a happy note
3.Leave a kind note and a treat for our mailman
4. Leavea $5 gift card and a happy note in my favorite book at Barnes and Noble
5.-10.Purchase 5 carnations and leave them on 5 cars in a parking lot with a notethat says, “Have a great day!”
11.Leave a happy quote tearaway on a community bulletin board
12.Leave a fancy new pen for our server at dinner
13.Bring flowers to the ICU staff at Lutheran General Hospital to say thank youfor their awesome work for us and their patients
14.Bring happy face balloons to the pediatric and geriatric wing of LutheranGeneral Hospital for patients who are not getting many visitors
15.Send a letter through snail mail to a child from http://www.hugsandhope.org/updatepage.htm
15.Bring cookies to the police department with a happy note
16.Bring flowers to the assisted living center near our house
17.Donate some much needed supplies and smiles to Kay’s Animal Shelter
18.Send two cards to two people who I admire for their bravery.
19.Send a nice card to all of my grandparents
20.Visit some loved ones in heaven (sounds morbid, but they need some love too!)
21.Send a care package to Anymarine.com and include some of the following:
- pre-paid calling cards, gallon and quartsize ziplock bags, babywipes, hand sanitizer, mechanical pencils, stationaryset, chap stick, shampoo and conditioner, lotion, tuna packs, gum, pringles,crystal light packets, coffee, uncle ben’s rice packs, fruit snacks, special Kbars, cards, peanut butter.
22.Donate my favorite children’s book to my local library
23.Leave open for opportunities that present themselves!
24.Leave open for opportunities that present themselves!
25.This one is a secret, seeing as how the person who is receiving this one might be reading right now!
Which I stated to the world on Facebook. And then I went shopping at Walmart on May 3rd to get all my supplies for my intentional acts of kindness. Guess what happened.....come on guess......my phone got STOLEN. Yes, stolen, while I was intentionally planning to bring good into the world. After all that business, I finally got home and went to bed all sad and mopey.
The next day was my b-day! I was feeling blue that I didn't have a phone, but my sister and my husband made me feel much better and helped me to see that I shouldn't let a thief ruin my awesome day!
We spent the day doing intentional acts of kindness and it was so fun! Since I didn't have my phone, we used an old school digital camera to document as much of the day as we could.
Here it goes:
- I wrote homemade letters to grandparents and the staff at Lutheran General to say "hello" and express my appreciation
2. Brought flowers to two residents of the nursing home that is near our house. I cut them from out
garden! They were very surprised and some what confused, but thankful :) We also got to help an
old lady figure out how to open the door and held the door open for her TWICE.
{daffodils and these other bluish purplish flowers}
from this website. I also decorated the envelope with the cute stickers, but I forgot to take a
picture. {sadface}
4. Brought store bought cookies (didn't know if they would accept home made ones...) to the police
station in my town with a little note to express my gratitude for their hard work! They very much
appreciated the cookies :)
{outside of the police station}
5. This sounds morbid, but I also cut 8 daffodils from my garden and brought them to the cemetery.
I put three daffodils on a friend's mother's grave to tell her we are thinking about her :) Then
Tommy and I walked around and found some other older graves and placed the last five daffodils
on them. I thought it might be nice to give them to people that might not have family left to do it.
That's morbid right? Ok, moving on.....
6. Brought store bought cookies to the fire station in my neighborhood. Same thing as #4 :) They
were also VERY happy to accept delicious chocolate chip cookies!
{outside the fire station}
{the photographer and I}
7. Left a happy quote tear away on the door of a bathroom. Didn't take a picture of this. Felt weird
to take a picture in a bathroom that wasn't a selfie ;)
8. Bought a man a sandwich and a drink for lunch at Jewel. I didn't actually get to give it to him
though :( There is this man that stands on a corner off of 21 every once in a while with a sign that
says "Need a job to pay for gas and food" and it just breaks my heart. Every time I see him, or
that corner in general, I send good thoughts for him out in to the universe. So when I saw him on
my birthday, I said, "Tommy. We are going to Jewel to get him lunch." and my wonderful
husband drove me right away to Jewel. Then, when we pulled up to his corner, he was GONE. I
was initially sad that I didn't get to help him, but Tommy said he was probably gone because he
had a job for the day, which made me feel a little better. So we both sent out some kind thoughts
for him and kept going for the day.
9. Left a $5.00 gift card for a stranger in my favorite book at Barnes and Noble. The note said,
"Please enjoy this book, it is one of my favorites! I am completing 25 random acts of kindness
and YOU are one of them!" Then I went back a week later and it was GONE! I hope someone
out there has a fun story to tell now :)
{The Give and my note}
{woot}
{waiting on the shelf}
Though I'm pretty sure she already knew that. I consider an intentional act of kindness because
that's what I wanted for my birthday from Tommy :)
Somewhere in there we took a trip to Tsukasa for dinner, got happy birthday sung to us, and then ended the night with eating cake. Yum :)
Overall, it was A LOT to do in one day, but it was fun to attempt it! I can't wait for next year :)
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