The Kindness of Friends

This week at Erin's school is HAWKindness Week (the Hawk being the school's mascot). The kids have activities all week designed to help them focus on kindness and being nice to each other. They've had activities like writing a Pledge of Kindness, playing Being Kind bingo (where they had things they had to do during the week to earn marks on their cards), making a chain of kindness that will be presented to the whole school on Friday, and selling Kindness Bracelets, with the money raised being donated to a local charity. I know the kids have been enjoying all of the activities so far, but the bracelets have definitely been the biggest hit of the week. I think the Student Council underestimated how many students would want to purchase the bracelets, and how many they'd purchase, because when I was there today to take pictures for the yearbook, it looked like they were just about sold out. And it's only Wednesday! Erin and her friends certainly bought more than their share, giving them to their friends, making sure they had matching ones, etc. And they were more than happy to model them for me while I was there.

In other photographic happenings in my house today, I was once again able to catch Mia "going fishing." Our new computer has a touch screen and a very realistic fish-pond screensaver. It completely mesmerizes Mia, and many times, I've caught her staring at the fish and "playing" with them by touching the screen (with her nose or sometimes even her paw), which creates ripples that scare the fish away. It's totally hysterical to watch! She certainly adds some humor to our lives!