Thursday’s kindness is done.  Let’s discuss.

#1  Overpay for a Contributor newspaper.  We love the Contributor and the opportunity and hope it is giving homeless people here in Nashville.  It really is amazing.  Eileen is one of my favorite sellers, so it was an honor to see her smiling face yesterday morning and pay a little extra for the new November issue.

#2  Card for the hubs.  It is so easy to think about others and forget to invest in the ones you are closest to.  I am completely guilty of this.  I want Josh to always know that no matter what, he is the most important person to me.  I want to build him up and make him feel loved and for him to know just how proud I am to be his wife.  He helped make my birthday week happen…especially since Amon could only do car rides and not go into any of the places I went.  Josh Kelley is quite the catch and I never want to take him for granted.  He is truly a blessing.

#3  Tip for drive-thru worker.  I needed coffee and some doughnut holes for #4, so I went through Kristy Kreme.  The lady who was preparing all the coffees and doughnut holes was so helpful and nice.  After getting my order I gave her a little tip and thanked her for the kind help.

#4  Coffee for people waiting on the bus.  I was a bit disappointed to only find a few people waiting for the bus.  Only one person wanted coffee…the doughnut holes were much more popular.

This is what I had left, so Amon and I spent the next 30 minutes driving around finding random people who were out and about to enjoy the rest of the coffee and doughnuts.

#5  Care packs for the homeless.  I bought up some pretty standard items and then let the kids pack some gallon zip-lock bags for some local homeless people we see pretty regularly.  We want the wee Kelleys to never take for granted the blessings which are abundant in our lives and we want them to always help when they can.  When we pass things out or buy Contributor papers, we always talk about treating others as we would want to be treated.  I love that they know Ms. Eileen and Mr. Taiwan and several other Contributor sellers by name and wave and chat with them.  I want them to always see people as just that…people…who God created and loves dearly.

#6  Donations for the Crisis Pregnancy Center.  What a wonderful ministry and the center in Hendersonville is simply incredible.  They do so much good, good work.  We were happy to tote in some baby supplies.

And right after this picture, I dropped my camera on the sidewalk.  It was bad…like real bad.  I may have cried.  I’m a little emotional.  So there’s no telling what today’s pictures will look like since the camera I will be using is about 10 years old.

But today is my big day.  Today is my birthday and I am finishing out my birthday week with my last 6 kindness acts.  I’m ready the spread the birthday love.

These two guys will be perfect companions for the day + another little wee boy who I am quite smitten with.

Oh and Amon had another doctors appointment yesterday.  It went great.  Only a few more weeks of being home bound and then we can show him off to the world.  November 26th cannot get here quick enough…I want everyone to know Amon like we do and to experience his infectious little personality.  He is such a crazy cool baby.

We also started our thankful leaves yesterday.  Each day of November the kids decide on something they are thankful for and up goes our leaf.  I love that the very first thing they chose to be thankful for was Amon.  This kid is going to be ruined…we’re all head over heals for him.

So here’s to a great start to my thirties.  I’m pretty stoked to see what God has planned.  If I had to guess, I would say my thirties are going to be pretty crazy cool.  Have a great weekend.

Happy Friday.

Yesterday is complete and it was quite a full day with Halloween and all.  Here’s our re-cap:

#1  Sticky notes on bathroom mirrors.  I had to get candy for trick-or-treaters, so my sticky notes ended up in the Target ladies room.  I was busted by a fellow lady bathroom user and she didn’t say a word…avoided all eye contact, with me and the hot pink sticky notes with messages like “Lookin’ good hot stuff”…I think I made her uncomfortable…her mirror even already had messages on it.  I’ve found that most people are very skeptical of kindness, but I’m here to prove them wrong.  Kindess can be rad and pure.

#2  Leave change at a laundromat.  There’s a laundromat just right down from our house, so this was super easy to do.  Some Happy Washing & Drying messages with some quarters and crossing my fingers someone decided to do laundry on Halloween.  The place was completely empty when I was there…like not one person…I could have possibly stolen a washer and/or dryer.

#3  Handmade cards to a nursing home.  The kids colored cute little cards and I wrote little messages on the inside.  When we were almost to the nursing home I noticed one of Harper’s cards…it had bunting…she’s a girl after my own heart for sure.

#4  Art giveaway.  This was for you guys yesterday.  And the winner of yesterday’s giveaway is Crystal.  Crystal check your email for a message from me.  Super congrats!  Thank you all for entering…your comments are always too fun to read.

#5  Mustache on unsuspecting car.  So a friend gave me a giant mustache magnet…it’s pretty awesome, but then later another friend gave me the exact same ginormous mustache magnet and what’s a girl to do with 2 very, very large mustache magnets?  Well I decided to spread a little joy and maybe a good laugh with a stranger’s car in the Park-n-Ride parking lot.

#6  Restaurant gift card for a diner.  The day was a bit crazy and I was never able to make it to an actual restaurant, so I decided to give away a Subway card to a trick-or-treater’s parent.  Well here’s the problem…we only had 4 trick-or-treaters…and 3 of them were teenagers who were not dressed up.  Come on now.  The other one showed up without a parent.  So today I will be finding a recipient for some yummy Subway.

Here’s my list for today.  Got to get my kindness on.

And how about a little Halloween wee Kelley drama.  We waited until today to buy and carve our pumpkin.  This was not our plan, but life has just been crazy.  So one pumpkin, three little artists.  What are 2 peace keeping parents to do?  Here was my solution.  I clearly wanted to get in on the face designing of our pumpkin too…I have no artsy shame…so I drew 2 eyes, a nose and mouth, folded them up and let everyone draw from a bowl what they would get to draw for our pumpkin.

And this was Harper’s reaction when she got the nose.  Her artistic heart was not okay with the nose…she had her heart set on the mouth, but when you pitch a fit in our house, you don’t get what you want.

I went in to give Amon his bottle while they cleaned out our pumpkin.  When I came out Harper had worked her sisterly magic on the boys.  They had all come to the agreement that Huddy would do both eyes, Sol would do the nose and Harper would do the mouth.  If they can work out an agreement on their own…if they can use their own little minds and words to peacefully solve a problem and everyone is okay with it, well, then I’m okay with it too.

She did do a really good mouth.

Then they all got dressed up and ready to hit some houses up for candy.  They were just too excited.  I loved their joy…and imaginations.  Pretty sure Huddy and Sol both really think they can be superheros when they grow up.  That’s pretty stellar.

I enjoyed hanging with Super Man all night.  He is really quite super.

And by far the funniest piece of Halloween candy I’ve ever seen.  It even came with fake vampire teeth…hysterical.

Hope everyone’s day was great.  And thank you for entering the giveaway.  I loved reading all the comments.  You guys rock.  Happy Thursday!