Day 196: Thank my classmate

On Thursday I went on a mandatory field trip for my college class Art Appreciation to the cities to the Minneapolis Art Institute and Walker Art center.

While I was there, I met a classmate named Carrie. I've seen her on our online course discussion posts and she and I have interacted. She's very smart and a dedicated student!

While I was there we had to follow this required document to pick out our artwork to write our paper about. I had the document on my phone but my battery was quickly dying.

Carrie in her organized studious fashion had an extra copy of the document and offered it to me!

I sent her a thank you tonight and also asked if she would be interested in studying or writing our paper together :)

Day 195: Feed a toad

Scott's been feeding this toad the last couple of times he's been here. Tonight he went outside to enjoy the cool breeze. And the toad, which he named Frank, was back! Scott proceeded to feed him more bugs! And then he convinced me to feed Frank too! He snagged a bug for me and I almost didn't do it. The bug looked like it had a stinger on it! But Scott transferred the bug to me via the wings. As soon as I bent over, frank jumped away! It was obvious that he got use to Scott. I leaned forward a bit more holding this bug in my hand and wanting to get rid of it stat! Lol

I dropped it in front of frank :)

We should be kind to toads too :-p It was nice to get close to nature and amazing to watch Frank dart his tongue out to accept the bugs Scott gave. :) I can't believe I just fed a toad!!

Day 194: Get my teacher cookies

Posting story soon! (doing homework first)

Day 193: Get a coupon, pass it on

Gas costs are looking a tad better! I've had this fleet-farm 4 cents of each gallon coupon in my purse for several months.

Today I gave it to LaVonne's hubby. He surprised our team with bagels this morning!

Kindness begets kindness. Enjoy your 4 cents off each gallon of gas on your Chevy Jim!!!!

Day 192: Lunch and Dinner on me

For lunch I enjoyed the company of my friend and coworker LaVonne. I know I've mentioned her before but want to touch on what a truly kind generous person she is. She's the motherly type. I suppose I instantly gravitated to her because her motherly instinct and kind heart reminds me so much of my own personal hero and only mother I really had in my grandmother. I took care of lunch today.

Tonight I was running around trying to find clothes to fit my ever-evolving body from pregnancy. I found a gorgeous black dress at Savers. I'm excited to wear it.

Afterwards, I went to chipotle. The guy behind the counter chatted with me asking the usual "When are you due?" my response "Not soon enough." lol I noticed this woman that was next in line. She was really patient while the man and I chatted. Most people would get annoyed and want to rush random bantering in a food line like that.

Not her. She was gracious. Smiled. And murmured support to me.

When I got to the cash register I quietly told the staff person that I wanted to take care of the woman next to me order.

Out of the corner of my eye I noticed the woman getting her card read to pay for hers. I had a huge grin on my face as things were paid up. Right before I left, I turned to the woman, and said "Every day I do an act of kindness, I took care of your dinner, have a wonderful rest of the day"

She was so surprised, and what I found surprising myself - she accepted with ease and said thank you about a billion times.

Day 191: Work on my daughters baby book

I know there's some of you out there that look at the vast many blank pages of your baby book and wish your parents had filled it out more...or maybe I'm the only one. :)

I swore when I had a child I would diligently fill it out. I've done pretty well with keeping up with most of the entries. Tonight I dedicated some serious time working on it. Adding pictures, put more entries in there of milestones....

I know she'll absolutely cherish this book when she gets older. And this is one of the most important lasting gifts I feel I can give her.

I even have a letter I wrote to her on her first birthday for her to open up on her 16th birthday.

Day 190: Thank my honey

Thank my honey for all that he does and more <3