Disclosure: Mama Smith was provided with an all expenses paid trip to cover this event. All opinions expressed are 100% her own.
While I was at the D23 Expo a couple of weeks ago, Disney and Cinderella launched the website CinderellaKindness.com in celebration of the Digital HD and Blu-ray™ release of Disney’s “Cinderella” on September 15, 2015. I was one of the lucky bloggers that was selected to become an Ambassador of Kindness. We attended a delicious dinner at Carthay Circle Restaurant. I was so excited to learn about this website because I think that being kind to others is very important. It is something that my mom always instilled in me, that I try to instill in my daughters, and I hope that they pass it on to their children. One small act of kindness can go a long way.
A story that I would love to share with you is something that happened just a couple days ago. My mother is selling her house and moving in to a small apartment. It is just her and having a large home is getting to be too much for her. Because she is downsizing, she placed a lot of her furniture and other items up for sale in local Facebook groups and online. One of the women that came to look at some things happened to mention that she was a single mom. More in to the conversation, my mother discovered that she was living in a small one bedroom apartment with her infant son and sleeping on a blanket on the floor. Her son was sleeping in a pack and play. She had no furniture at all. She had just moved to the area and while she was working, money was still tight – especially because of the first, last, and security deposit she had to put down to get a place to live. My mom decided to give her everything for free. Her extra bed, a toddler bed, a couch, a love seat, two end tables, a TV, the TV cabinet – even some sheets and pillows. The woman tried to give her $20 (which was all she had) and my mother would not accept it. In fact, she took her grocery shopping as well. When she called to tell me about this, I could tell she was getting choked up remembering it. She kept telling me how grateful this young woman was. That she kept hugging her and was crying almost the entire time. My brother-in-law helped move all the stuff in to the apartment for her as well. She was in shock, and could not believe that there were kind people like this still in the world. My mom felt so good helping someone out who really needed it. This inspired me to go out and do a good deed. I went through all of our toys and clothes and donated a lot to a local domestic violence shelter. It warmed my heart. I encourage you to do the same – I know you have some kindness in you. It doesn’t have to be as big a gesture, even the smallest of things can make someone’s day.
Inspired by the spirit of Cinderella, this online initiative invites fans everywhere to pledge their commitment to be courageous and kind in the hopes of achieving “A Million Words of Kindness” in time for World Kindness Day on November 13th, 2015. In the film “Cinderella,” Ella is told by her mother, “Where there is kindness, there is goodness; and where there is goodness, there is magic.” Now families everywhere can create this magic themselves by submitting words of courage and kindness at CinderellaKindness.com, using the hashtags #Cinderella and #bekind or the handle @Cinderellamovie. These kind words and their entrant’s names will then appear on the site’s interactive “Kindness Wall.”
Go to CinderellaKindness.com and leave your kind words. You never know when someone might need to read them.
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