Choose Kindness.

A couple of weeks ago, Cameron and I went to the grocery store. You know, the normal weekend chore. Some days I love winding through the aisles with him thinking about our week and picking out the colorful veggies/fruit that we love.  Other days, not so much. Other days, I wish I could order it online and have it delivered to my house.  Not the point though...

As we went from the milk aisle to the yogurt/oj/eggs, a woman carrying yogurt  back to her cart stopped and said: 

"What a fat, chubby baby." 

(insert blank, shocked and bothered look here)

I stopped dead in my tracks. She wasn't an older woman with old-school knowledge, she wasn't a rude teenager, she wasn't even an a child that hadn't learned this lesson yet. She was a grown woman who should know better.  I was stunned and I couldn't even respond. So I just wheeled my cart and Cameron on because I learned that if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. As I walked on in a daze, I couldn't get past what she said and of course thought of a BAZILLION things I could have responded with. Where was my wit when I needed it? I mean, she could have said, 'what a cute, chubby baby', or 'what a handsome butterball' or anything of that nature.  I'm sure she didn't mean for it to come out as rude as it sounded, or at least that's what I'm telling myself.  I think what irked me the most was that we spend so much time and effort teaching kids to be sensitive and kind to other people because that's the right thing to do, and yet the adults are the ones that tend to ruin it for us.

I say all this only to borrow steal this quote/saying/picture from another blogger that I read, I'm not sure where it originated but I can appreciate it, learn from it and live it.

(*side note*, children may not truly understand the depths of love from the beginning, 

but I do believe they feel it.)

Choose well people.

Think about the way you say things.