Kindness and I Wont Darken Your Door Step Again

I started my 'Unproblematic, With A Hearty Side Of Significant' mission past gathering upwards some art supplies…

…and this sticky notation set I got last year from our friends at Live-Inspired.com:

The quote inside the circumvolve reads, "Treasure and observe today". How totally simple with a hearty side of significant is that? I honey it! Reading information technology made writing out my notes experience fifty-fifty more fun, and when I was finished, I set up my sights on the mail center in our neighborhood. Everyone who lives in our (rural) community picks up their mail there, so I thought it would make for a great location to surprise a few different people at one fourth dimension.

It turned out to be quite the take a chance. Because I wanted the notes to exist surprises, I didn't desire anyone to see me leaving them. I had to be quick, placidity, and covert! I staked out the surface area by car outset, and when I was sure that the coast was completely clear, I scurried up onto the porch and rapidly scanned the area for the perfect place to hang the first of my four notes.

I hung one on the rocking chair closest to the door…

…and tied my second note onto the back door handle.

Next up, information technology was sticky note fourth dimension. In that location are mailbox rooms on the left and right sides of the building, and they're separated by a center hall. I had decided the night earlier that I would only go with my gut and walk into one of the rooms and stick my note onto whichever mailbox my hand led me to first.

This is where the adventure started to get a little more than…adventurous.

Correct earlier I stuck the mucilaginous note to the mailbox, a mail man came walking through the door, and I panicked. I blurted out something about a "photo project" before he fifty-fifty asked why I was standing there with a camera in one mitt and a sticky notation in the other.

The next 3 minutes is sort of a mistiness. I think I merely walked effectually and "worked on my photograph projection" while he finished up any it was that he had swung by to practise.

I don't know why I was feeling so sweaty well-nigh the whole thing, only he didn't stay long, and I was still acting busy with my "photo project" when he turned to me on his way out the door and asked, "What kind of photo project is it?".

Oh boy.

"Uh…information technology'due south virtually the ability of a handwritten notation, and hopefully making folks grin", I blurted (once more).

"Oh!", he said as he fabricated his way out the door. (smiling!) #yay!

(Insert: "whew!" and re-cue Mission Impossible music, here.)

Later that, I checked to brand certain at that place wasn't anyone else coming, and since at that place wasn't, I went back to the mailbox I had chosen and stuck my sticky note on information technology:

The concluding note I wrote out involved finding a hiding spot for a "but for fun" little gift the note would pb to. I decided the note (a piece of cloud-covered paper, folded in half) should go on the bulletin board in the center hall.

The paper itself came from Hobby Antechamber, and I used a Sharpie marker to write this message on the inside of it:

After I had it wedged into the bulletin lath frame, I high-tailed it over to the gazebo to hide the surprise: a notepad, inside a nix lock bag- merely in case it started to rain.

I raced home and ran upstairs to share my adventure with Kevin and Josh (who were working on their adjacent Shoot Wing Shoot e-class at the time), and it was and then much fun re-enacting the whole thing for them- ha! The experience made me feel cheerful and childlike, and I highly recommend that kind of "pausitivity"!

Later yesterday afternoon, while I was uploading all of those photos, my best friend in the neighborhood sent me a text message asking if I was involved in the shenanigans…

…and after we got done screaming dorsum and forth, I asked her how she knew about it. She said ane of our other neighbors had posted virtually information technology on Facebook, and so I scooted over there to see what she had written. Her message was so kind, and I was and so excited to come across these photos she posted of her lilliputian boy finding the notepad:

I hadn't planned to let the cat out of the pocketbook, but I wanted to enquire her permission to post her sons photos hither, and so I sent her a message and confessed. I'm then glad I did too, considering I wound up having the about pleasant conversation dorsum and forth with her last night, and I made a wonderful new cottage-lovin' friend in the procedure!

If I hadn't ever found out who institute the notepad, that would've been okay too- 'crusade like I said to the mailman: this whole thing was really just about the power of a handwritten note and (hopefully) making folks smiling.

I started to feel a niggling scrap uncomfortable nearly blogging nigh information technology because I didn't want information technology to come across every bit a "wait what I did" kind of a thing. Just here's why I've decided to allow myself to push button the publish button on this postal service.

My blog is my playground, and passion pushes my swing posts. Sharing and discovering fun ideas and photos is probably my favorite affair about the cyberspace, so I feel similar this kind of inspiration is okay to put out there today…and any day!

Happy week!

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