Yesterday was crazytown, so here I am on a Saturday night.  I’m sitting here in my ugly Christmas sweater…we’ll discuss that in a moment…blogging on our couch.  It’s a hot Saturday night.

Yesterday for our kindness advent we were paying for someone’s gas.  It is seriously one of my most favorites because I am always so intrigued by the recipients reaction.  People can be skeptics so it’s always interesting to see how this kindness act plays out.

The boys and I pulled up to a pump and began our wait for the random person who was going to pull up next to us.  We waited and waited and waited.  Finally a woman pulled up and the boys all started yelling, “Get out Mom.”  “Go get her.”  I jumped out, told the lady what our family was doing and she gave me the big “No thanks”.  I assured her I was not creepy and there were no strings attached, but she stuck with her very firm “No thanks.”  I was bummed, so I got back in the car and we began waiting again.  Then from the back seat a small Kelley boy informed me he had to go #2 like…now.  Like really, really, really bad.  I weighed my options.  Remember when I said I was going to try and be more relaxed and just roll with this whole kindness thing this year?  Yeah, me too.  We ended up snagging a gas card and a piece of tape from the gas station attendant and heading out to take care of that looming #2.

  Today we were going to give out free Redbox codes to people waiting in line.  Last year I simply purchased a Redbox gift card online and had it emailed to myself.  I discovered today that Redbox no longer lets you use emailed gift card codes in person at the actual boxes…only for online reservations.  If this is one of your advent days go ahead and purchase the gift card online and have it mailed to you…those are the ones you can use in person.  Things just aren’t going exactly as we planned this year.  We all talked about what we should do.  Sol suggested giving out chocolate.  We told him it was a great idea, but people these days frown upon taking candy from strangers 🙂  Josh suggested us buying a small Walgreens gift card so whoever could purchase some treats to go with their movie and taping it to the Redbox outside the Walgreens.  Done and done.

Tomorrow we are painting rocks and leaving them on the playground.  Who wouldn’t want to find a fun rock…especially if you’re a kid.

So let’s get back to that ugly Christmas sweater.  My friend Marcie had the wonderful idea for us to run the Ugly Sweater 5k.  This was all well and good at the time, but today it was in the 30s come start time.  It was frigidly cold.  Like we discussed on more than one occassion just going back to the car and hitting up the closest Starbucks.  It was miserable.

But we decided to stick it out.  And we were really glad we did.  Ugly Christmas sweaters every where and giant Christmas inflatables and Toys for Tots and hot chocolate stations.

Side note:  We discovered that cold hot chocolate is pretty bad.  Like makes my stomach hurt.  End side note.

And afterwards we rewarded ourselves with Mellow Mushroom where I discovered the Caesar Pizza which could possibly be the best pizza ever.  It was amazing.

So how was your Saturday?  Hope you’re staying warm.  Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Happy Saturday!