Day 38: Breathe, Seek, Play....Random Act of Kindness Dessert Style.

Today was a crazy,chaotic day...pretty typical for our house. The kids had a half day of school, and we are now officially on Easter Break. We are so excited to spend some time a the coast but it seemed as much as I was moving in fast forward someone kept hitting the pause and rewind button today. Thankfully at the craziest times of today, angels stepped in to help smooth things over and keep me on my path. My mother in law was having the same kind of day and we shared many a good laugh over our Murphy's Law Kind of day. You know the kind of day when you walk into a room for something but can't remember what? Only to go into another room and you get clued in as to what you were looking for in the other room. The kind where you go to look for something and can't find it only to realize that it is right under your nose. The kind where you have so much on your mind you can't seem to focus on getting one thing done. Or the kind when you try to get the "one thing done" everything seems to unravel just as fast as you are getting it completed. It wasn't just one thing, it was a never ending colossal of a chaotic Murphy's Law waterfall. But this is normal, just today someone turned the craziness up on the spin cycle and time was not on my side. My mother in law suggested to go out for dinner, which was a fabulous idea since me in a kitchen today with my luck may have ended up with a call to the fire department! So out to dinner we went, aaaahhhhh finally to sit down and try not to think about all the things I still had yet to do. The server comes over and asked to take our order, I said I would like my mind, I seemed to have lost it! We all laughed...well, the kids didn't exactly get it, but we "big" kids have all known that kind of feeling. We enjoyed a lovely dinner and Elliott brought a book and Cooper brought a sketchbook to occupy their time so we could have an adult conversation. A table of three ladies sat down next to us and we all thought of getting them a dessert for our random act of kindness. They all ordered salad, and we thought maybe not...but then decided to press on. So Cooper opened up his sketch book to make a card. And one mishap after another, he dropped his papers under the table, then his pencil and trying to make it the card, it was more than obvious it would not be random and they would know it was us. The restaurant wasn't packed. I got up and said I'd go to the ladies room and scoured the restaurant for an unsuspecting table. There were not many to choose from, one looked like a business meeting, a birthday party getting ready to set up, and then a group of ladies that were having a great conversation caught my eye. We asked for a dessert menu and the boys, Grandma and I decided on the sweetest treat we'd never eat...because we were going to surprise someone else tonight. The boys drew ice cream cones and a sweet note. We ordered the brownie sundae because it was the biggest and that all the women could share it. The manager came over and asked us was one of the women the boys teacher. I said no, are they teachers...he said yes they just got off work. I said we don't know any of them....but that made it even sweeter to know we were surprising a group of teachers! The boys could not see them and wanted to know who was getting the yummy dessert. They both decided they had to go to the bathroom, curiosity getting the better of them. Around the corner they saw three of the ladies, two of them had stepped out for a moment....and we thought oh no, they may all be leaving. But the boys went to the restroom and the two ladies returned just in time for the server to bring the card and the ice cream brownie surprise. I heard one teacher say "Oh my this is so nice, please tell them we appreciate this". Our server seemed to enjoy this random surprise we had him deliver and smiled at us as we overheard the teachers asking him to bring more spoons! We went back to our table and filled Grandma in on how the delivery went. We knew we better scram before they discovered us, as we were the only table with kids in the restaurant. As we left the restaurant the boys wanted one more last look but as we scurried by the ladies were enjoying their sweet treat. It was Grandmas first Random Act of Kindness with us...and after our crazy, chaotic day we knew just how much that dessert meant to that deserving group of ladies...they deserved to be treated and reminded that what they do does make a difference. For a day when everything seemed to be going wrong, this was one of the things that went right!  Sometimes a sweet reward can come at just the right time, and change everything, even enjoying a dessert we'd never eat!