The past couple of months have been really stressful for my husband's employer, as well as so many other peopl in our community and us. With Hecla shut down for production and then the fire at the Sunshine. There are many people out of work right now and for my husband's employer they actually have 5 drills stuck underground that they can't go get right now. And they have had to shuffle many of their people, lay off a few and move others to another job site.
Yesterday was payday and when I went into the office I could see that JJ was having a really rough day, and it was only 10am. She gave me my husband's paycheck and I went about the rest of my day, all the while thinking about her and how stressed she obviously was. So this morning as I headed out to run my errends.
After our 14 days of random acts of kindness last month we committed to being purposeful and doing a random act of kindness for someone at least once a month. So today was a perfect day to do someone. So I made a quick stop through the coffee stand and pick myself up a tastey chai tea and then stopped at the office on my way back out of town and one for JJ as well. I took her in that sweet little treat and she was so surprised and I think a bit overwhelmed. I told her that I could tell she was having a rough day yesterday and I wanted her to know that we appreciate all she does for our family and that I hoped she had a better day. I left her office feeling great and my day was awesome as well.
I want to also take a moment to clarify that doing these acts of kindness and sharing what we are doing for others isn't about patting ourselves on the back. I do however hope that we inspire others to do the same. Knowing that you can do something as little as taking someone a cup of coffee and totally change how they are feeling about their day is so worth it.
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