Spirit of Christmas

I wanted to share this cute story & tell you how proud it made me.

Last week, while shopping at Cabelas (on Saturday) the crowds were horrible. As everyone hussled and bussled around the joint, it was difficult to even shop or to get down the isles. We squeezed through the crowds and made it passed the registers when I realized we forgot a shopping cart. There was no way I was dragging Savannah back to get one, so I sent Bo for one. I knew with his fancy footwork he would find a hole.

Of course, as I watched him, I could tell the carts were gone. As he waited for a cart to be returned, he noticed an older woman in an electric wheelchair trying to leave the building. As you are probably familiar, the doors are solid wood and very, very heavy. This woman just kept slamming her wheelchair into the door hoping she could push it open. There had to have been 30 adults come and go from the building - not one of them helping her. As I watched from a distance, my Bo walked over to her, opened the first door letting her through, then opened the second door also. This woman began to cry and took Bo by the hand, pulled him towards her so she could give him a hug and said to him, "That was the nicest thing anyone has done for me this Christmas".

I noticed there were adults around who stopped to watch Bo perform this great act of kindness (embarrased as they were and rightly should have been). I couldn't help but shed a few tears myself.

We all get so caught up and in a hurry

that sometimes we forget to notice the small things.