Random Act of Kindness ~ Snack Sized

Random Act of Kindness ~ Early release day today and we went to Play it Again Sports to pick up a package of wiffle balls to start our neighborhood Sandlot games at the park. As we were leaving we got to a stoplight and there sat a homeless man. Elliott said "look there is a homeless person, we should help him he doesn't have a house". I said "what would you like to do for him?" And the light had changed so we were now on the highway and he said, "I can't give him a house but I could give him my cheeze-its from my lunch." I said do you want me to turn around so you can give him your snack? And he said "no, that's ok" because we were almost to the next light. I looked in the rear view mirror and see his eyes whelp up with tears. I asked him what was wrong, why was he crying. Cooper said "you know why he is crying you can see it in his eyes" I again told him "I can turn around at this light and we can go back if you want". He looked at me, tearfully smiled and said, "I can give him my cookies too". We drove back but the man was getting up to leave by the time we got turned around to where he was. We were able to turn into a shopping center parking lot where he was walking and cut him off in his path. Elliott rolled down his window and handed him his package of cheeze-its and soft batch chocolate chip cookies. The man smiled and said "thank you", Elliott said "you're welcome". As we drove off the man put the cheeze its in his pocket and immediately began to eat the cookies. Elliott said "that probably made him very happy". I said he had a Dominos box so somebody else may have given him lunch and now he is having dessert. Elliott told me the box is what he had "homeless" written on but what caught his eye as we drove by the first time was the man was sitting there and smiling with his sign. ♥ So proud of my little guy....he has such an amazing heart ♥Cooper was telling Elliott that he did such an awesome thing and gave him a high five in the back seat as we were driving home...my heart was so full, and my eyes were all so teary....What sticks with me is that Elliott didn't just see a man who was homeless...he saw a man who was smiling even though he didn't have anything. Elliott asked on the way home "why isn't he living with his family" and I said maybe he was an only child and didn't have any family...and then he said "how did he lose his house" and I said "I don't know, he may have lost his job and couldn't pay his bills" Cooper said "one day I am going to make a million dollars and I am to give a million dollars to to the homeless shelter". Then he said "maybe he could get a job at the sports store and then he could get an apartment." They just make my heart melt, they are such great kids!