Spreading Kindness

So today I've been thinking a lot about kindness--mainly about how much kindness we have received in the past three months since Roo was born, and especially in the last few weeks.  (Be patient, I'm working on the next installment of the story, I promise.)  I cannot tell you how much I have been blessed and overwhelmed by the acts of love we have witnessed.  Here are just a few that are on my mind today...

• Two wonderful friends who took me out for manicures & pedicures and lunch yesterday
• Another great friend who watched "Eclipse" with me last night, cried with me at dinner, and then helped me to laugh and think about other things
• My Supper-Swap Girls who brought dinner to my family 3 nights a week for an entire MONTH when I couldn't get it together to participate in the swap
• A sorority sister who sent a card to us at Children's--even though we hadn't been that close in college, her son spent a lot of time at Children's as an infant and she knew what it felt like

Those are only a sampling of the outporing of support we've gotten.  It is truly amazing to me.  And so now I want to spread a little kindness of my own.  I am doing my first ever BLOG GIVEAWAY!  The winner will get their choice of a $10 Starbucks gift card or Glee: The Music, Volume 1.  Why that CD?  Well, because "glee" (the word, not the TV show) sort of makes me think of kindness, and becauses that's MY favorite of the Glee albums.  :-)

"So HOW do we win this AWESOME prize?", you might ask. 

"Well," I might answer, "here's how.  Simply post a comment on this point, telling me about an act of kindess that you have done OR that has been done for you."  And yes, I mean YOU.  You, my friends and family from real life who are reading this.  You, my FB friends who I haven't seen in ages.  You, the person I have never met but reads my blog.  You, the person who heard about this blog and/or giveaway from a friend.  You, the person who stumbled here completely by accident.  I want YOU to post a comment and enter to win this prize.  Because thinking about acts of kindess is helping me get through the day today, and I want to hear as many of them as I can.  So really, just your posting an act of kindess IS an act of kindess.  Crazy, isn't it?

So let's hear 'em.  (The winner will be chosen at random, by the way, using a highly sophisticated method of asking my 5-year-old to pick a number between 1 and however many comments I have...)

PS - This contest is open until midnight on Monday, July 12.