Day 38

Watched the cousins play rugby in the freezing cold! Sacrificial love some may say.. 

Day 37

First sunny day in a long time so ice cream treats for the cousins and mum today! 

Day 36

Watched this babe at his swimming lessons. He kept popping up every few seconds to check I was still watching. 

So cute!

Fail

I am now officially months behind on my challenge. I got married and started the new term and became totaly consumed with myself. I am disappointed in myself. Life has been really tough lately but after some encouragement from a friend I've decided I need to look outside myself again and turn the focus onto other people. So, here we go. Attempting the challenge again. Starting from day 36. Let's see how we go.. 

Day 35

Brought a Lightening McQueen doughnut for my little cousin - Fluro pink icing everywhere!

Day 34

My fiancé is living at our new house so I moved my big bed into the new house for him to sleep on - meanwhile I am on a single air bed with a couple of blankets.. That is kind

Day 33

Moving out of my room at my flat a week early so the new flat mate can move in! Living on a friends floor for a week!

Day 32

Took little Sammy shopping today to pick a present for being part of our wedding. I guess this act of kindness has selfish motives as it's going to be at the end of the isle to bribe him to walk!

Day 31

Helped the fiancé move his entire house today ... Not sure if it is an act of kindness or because he is my fiancé it is expected of me? 

Day 30

Sent a little message to a friend reminding her how awesome she is! It's not hard to voice the feelings you have for people and it's so nice for that person to hear them! Only if they are nice feelings of course! 

Day 29

I met up with some of the children from my class last year! We had some chats and some lollies - will miss my Gorgous 5 year olds this year! 

Day 28

Wet, sweaty, hot and tired after loosing our team building car rally challenge! So I did a coke and 'v' run for my team to cheer everyone up! Not the best at loosing was my team.

Day 27

Brought this little dude some braces and a bow tie to wear to my wedding - isn't he gorgous! 

Day 26

There is a new teacher at school who was feeling very overwhelmed about starting the new year so I got her a little gift to remind her why we become teachers in the first place - to put the sparkle in a child's eye!

Day 25

Today I drove past a lady walking down the main road in a gorgous outfit - so I stopped the car and told her so. You should have seen her smile! 

Day 24

Driving lessons!! She's getting really good too! 

Day 23

Tonight we were invited around to a families house for dinner - I spent the night playing with their two young children. Three year olds have so much energy! Give me a full class of 5 year olds any day. I am however now very good at shooting toy bow and arrows! 

Day 22

I have managed to fall behind on my blog already .. I have been feeling like I'm not a very kind person as I'm finding it quite hard to be intentional every day. I had my hens party stretching over the last two days and it's so hard to think of others when ur busy being spoilt and made the centre of attention!

I did however write my flatmate a little card today to acknowledge her as a special person.

Day 21

Paige boy shopping with this little guy and his family - but after 45mins he was over it so I took him for a playground break while the rest of the family carried on shopping. 

Day 20

Today I dropped some reading books around to a struggling reader from my class last year. Hoping she has been reading it up over the holidays! 

Day 19

I took my friends puppy for a walk down at the beach today - I don't even like dogs but isn't she a cutie! Not that friendly but definitely a cutie.

Day 18

Kind of gross but our house got taken over by flies so I walked to the supermarket and purchased some fly spray - then proceeded to cover the lounge in it. Job well done, no more flies!

Day 17

Brought the fiancé a drink in the sun today - he thinks my money is his money but he's mistaken .. Not until we are married. Is that unkind? Or is that just smart 

Day 16

Took my little cousins out for the day - kids have the power of unconditional love which makes you feel so special. Inflatable world and sushi = success! 

Day 15

Chocolate treats for my chocolate loving friend 

Day 14

OSuper fun act of kindness today - I took my friends two daughters out for the day so she could have some time out. We partied it up at inflatable world, played games at the arcade, McDonald's for lunch and taught them how to skateboard! 

Day 13

Spent the day in at work today even though it is school holidays! Early start with my teacher friend (we were both struggling with the time of day we were suddenly dragging ourselves out of bed) so I got her an energy pick me up!

#energy #kind 

Day 12

Night time mission to get the flattie the new buzz bar caramel sundae from McDonalds! #sweettreats #kindness 

Day 11

Shouted the neighbour across the road a coffee - snuck out in the dark in my pjs to post this little card in their letter box! 

Day 10

Today I watered my friends vege garden! She is away at the moment so doesn't know that I did it - it feels pretty cool doing an act of kindness without the person knowing! The hose I was using split so I got wet and everything else in the backyard got a watering too - you're welcome flatties! 

This sums up day 9 ..

Ready for a bit of a smack in the face? I wasn't .. But this picture slapped me hard!! 

Day 9

Today I brought my friend some flowers and popped around to say hi. The visit was great but she just kind of dumped the flowers on the table .. On the drive home I was thinking about how guttered that made me feel, that she didn't seem to appreciate my act of kindness. This led to me thinking - really who am I doing this challenge for... Is it for the people around me or is it to make myself feel good. Selflessness is not something I am very good at. But then maybe she doesn't need gifts and spending time chatting and playing with her kid is the act of kindness that is valuable. To me though, spending time with her and her family isn't an act of kindness it's just life. 

Day 8

My brother has just been moved into a halfway house. I don't know how they expect people, especially young people who are unwell to get better when they are dumped in a cold, dark and probably damp flat that is riddled with rat poo and bugs... Makes me so mad. Today when i went to visit I brought him bags of groceries - little money, no routines, my little brother.

Day 7

Made the flatmates a salad... That is all. 

Day 6

Had my family over to Akaroa for dinner tonight, we made a BBQ, went for a walk and played a game - overall we were great hosts if I say so myself! 

Day 5

So.. I don't share that well all the time.. And my smoothy on the go machine is one of those no goes area - don't ask my why, I don't know myself.. But today I made Matt a smoothie (with his own fruit but definitely not the point). Oops 

Day 4

30 degrees - brought my friend an ice cream cone .... NAILED IT! 

Day 3

I decided to carry on finding intentional ways to be kind and emptied the dishwasher even though it wasn't my chore to do so. The dishwasher wasn't a huge act of kindness but I had to overcome my negative attitude and lack of motivation in order to empty the dishwasher. Does this still make it an act of kindness? I am not sure. 

A thought...

Today I read this and felt challenged, I completely believe this so should I continue on with my challenge? I guess everyone has to start somewhere ..?

Day two

Today I cleaned my friends toilet - I feel this is a mighty act of kindness. Starting to get excited about finding intentional ways to be kind - it feels good!

#kindness #friends #help #feelsgood

Attempt 1

Day one of kindness challenge wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. In my mind I wanted my act of kindness to be intentional, deliberate but when away on holiday with 7 other very helpful people I found this very difficult. I did however settle for doing the dinner dishes - I swear this was only a third of the dishes..