Life's Little Treasures

--by Nellybelly, posted May 22, 2008

About a week ago, we were having record high temperatures (almost 80 degrees!!!) so I thought it would be nice to take my 6 year old son to the park to play since it would be a while before he'd be able to play outside again. The playground is covered in little pebbles surrounded by a chain link fence and they had just re-spraypainted the fence silver a few days earlier. At the bottom of the fence, all the pebbles had gotten spraypainted silver also and when my son saw the silver pebbles, he instantly called them "treasures" and started scooping them up into his pockets. I told him that they were pretty and then forgot all about it.

On the way home, we stopped by a gas station so that I could get myself some coffee and get some juice for my son. As we were walking away from the counter to leave after we had paid, my son walked back up to the counter and said, "Oh yeah, here's you some treasures!" The guy behind the counter looked like he had been having a bad day (he was working an all-day shift I found out). But, when Chris handed him the silver pebbles, his face lit up and he said, "Thanks buddy! These are so cool," and he put the pebbles up on the top of his cash register.

I just went to that same gas station earlier today to get my morning coffee and would you belive he STILL has those silver pebbles up on the register? Not only that, when I was paying for my coffee, he handed me a little paper bag full of peppermints and little chocolate candies and said, "Give these to my buddy when you get home." It just goes to show how the smallest things in life can brighten up someone's day or in this case brighten someone's week!

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Posted by Nellybelly
May 22, 2008
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Readers Comments

Cheryl wrote: Thanks for sharing. I feel better now.

myfbil wrote: How touching. You've been blessed with an angel!

royallnana wrote: That was really amazing. God bless the child and the mother.

aurelia wrote: Little things mean A LOT...your sweet son gave a gift of pure kindness...he wanted nothing in return...Smiles and more Smiles are made by moments like that. You have a new friend now. ~Aurelia

jaya wrote: very nice! Sometimes small things makes much difference!! BLessings to your son and you!
Love
Jaya

Alicia wrote: You do have a beautiful caring little angel. I for sure know he will do more good works in the future. God Bless him more.

yogionthego wrote: Well now I'm a blubbering mess... kids are great hey? Seems that you have a little angel on your hands.

makesomeonesmile wrote: That is great. Any act of kindness matters. Thanks for sharing your story!

lOVEBUG wrote: It is the innocence of a child takes makes their gifts so valuable and the man was aware enough to receive the true gift you child had given

lmil1954 wrote: Nelly, your story is a treaure!

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