Today is the day of the Eastern Carolina Odyssey of the Mind Competition. We have been volunteering time to coach a team of "out of the box" problem solvers for almost 3 months. Today they will have two performances, and I know they will be amazing...
I do not consider this as a part of our Random Acts of Kindness...volunteering with the kids after school each week (sometimes twice when we rehearsed on Saturdays) was what I considered an everyday kindness. This gave 7 kids the opportunity to be a part of the Odyssey of the Mind experience that they otherwise would not have had (due to lack of staff at their school able to fulfill this role). Volunteering a the school on any level benefits every child there. My kids were on the team and it was a worthwhile experience working with the kids and seeing their creative problem solving skills and how they worked as a team developing a skit to perform (from props, to costumes, to storylines, painting backdrops, inventing devices, etc). To watch their imaginations ignite and see what they could do was amazing...it has been an honor and a privilege to have been their coach!
<side note> Though we were not able to keep from breaking our 40 days in a row random acts of kindness, we did not let this get us down. Some days things come up and even though we went into this with the best of intentions, because they are "random" acts, they do not always go as planned. We realize that it is ok that we miss a day here or there over Lent (because we have been doing Random Acts of Kindness on Sundays during Lent when we could opt to refrain)...However it is worthy to report that we were performing everyday kindness acts which are just as important and mean even more so now!
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