Hailey's Christmas Presents ~ Random Acts

This Christmas I wanted a new tradition to remember Hailey and keep her a part of our family and day. A couple of months ago I shared a blog post requesting friends and family members to help us make this a new tradition by committing random acts of love or kindness in her memory, writing down the act, and sharing it with us via email or note in the mail. These notes were then put in her pink Christmas stocking that hangs along with the rest of ours and opened and read on Christmas morning.

I am thankful that we had a few friends and family members partake in this with us. I cannot express how filling it was to not have her stocking hang empty and have her be a part of Christmas with us.

Here are some of the random acts of love or kindness people shared with us about:

~Brought hair stylist lunch
~Left waiter large tip
~Donated bones to local animal shelter
~Services in exchange for donation to Hailey's Hope
~Donation of new windshield wiper blades to someone in need
~Paid for person's lunch behind them at drive thru
~Provided a ride to someone in need

Isaac and I also committed some random acts of kindness for Hailey.

While waiting in line to return an item to Walmart, I noticed a Christmas tree full of paper cards that listed various names from a nursing home along with items they were requesting for Christmas. I immediately noticed one for "Donald" and knew I needed to fulfill his Christmas wish list, which were a humble request of socks and slippers.

I also was inspired by another project (the name of the project is slipping me right now of course)... to leave little notes of love and encouragement for strangers in random places. I wrote 10 notes of just that, love and encouragement and Isaac and I slipped them in random places while doing shopping one day with the prayer that they would bring at the very least a momentary smile to the recipients.

I am looking forward to keeping this a tradition in the years to come.