Kindness and a Mother-Daughter Duo

"Good people can get you out of a thousand problems with charm and kindness."

~ Anouska Hempel

At one of my children's schools, there is a formidable mother-daughter duo.  They are mother and grandmother to a set of triplet boys.  Nearly always, they travel as a pair -- to pick up and drop off the boys, to parties and to church on Sundays.  In addition to being incredibly nice, they also happen to be very funny and I always have a great time with them.  On a recent morning, one of them discovered that my car -- with brand new tires -- had a large screw in one of the tires.  That is certainly enough to ruin one's day, but thanks to these women, my day was anything but awful.  They kindly offered to drive me to a lunch meeting.  But before, we made a pit stop at one of my favorite shops as they needed to pick something up.  Inside the store, I fell in love with a scarf and was planning to buy it for myself.  I went to the cashier to pay for the scarf only to discover that the grandmother had bought it for me as a birthday gift.  And then the daughter shared that she had bought me a  necklace I had admired.  I was overwhelmed by these women's thoughtfulness.  I greatly enjoyed the time that I spent with them -- thanks to the screw in my tire -- and as the three of us laughed in the car, I realized that I was having a pretty good day.