Day 11 - March 6th, 2012

Today the nicest thing happened to my kids, my friend, and I. We were at the pancake house for lunch and a man who had been sitting by himself came over to us when he was about to leave. He made small chit chat about the kids and how raising kids is a hard but important job. Then he said he was paying for our lunch, he already had the bill in his hand. After he left a waitress came over to us with a small stuffed owl and said the man told her to give it to us. As he walked by the window we smiled and waved, as did he. What a random act of kindness. It was so strange and of course society tells us to question and doubt such acts and treat them as suspicious, which we did at first. But then it hit us, he was just a really nice man doing something sweet for us. I never want to forget it so I took this photo of the kids at the pancake house before we left.
Now it's my turn to pay it forward.