Motivational Mondays~

Hello friends!  Yes I do realize it is Tuesday, but my inspiration for Motivational Monday didn't occur until late last evening.  So, I decided it would be okay to share it on Tuesday.

Most of you know we had some icy weather this past weekend here in Atlanta not the pretty snow that our unreliable weather folk predicted.  Well due to said weather, our mail and garbage service has been a bit off.  We have yet to get mail since Friday our mailman of 20+ years retired before Thanksgiving and hasn't been replaced so we have subs.  It was dark and cold last night when our final garbage truck entered the neighborhood.

Our new neighbors across the street (moved in last week) had placed a TON of boxes out for pickup.  Nothing wrong with that (honestly recycling should have taken them but didn't), EXCEPT...they didn't break any of them down.  I am sure you can picture what that crazy pile that took up half their yard and oh the contractors had blocked with cars all day looked like.  It was his last stop in our neighborhood...our garbage man got out of his truck and hand loaded ALL of them into his truck.  I just felt I needed to say something.

I didn't have any disposable coffee/hot cocoa cups on hand (and honestly didn't think even with my Keurig I'd get it made in time), so I did the next best thing.  I grabbed a bottle of Coca Cola and ran across the street to thank him.

The look on his face said it all.  To be recognized for going above and beyond on a cold night, working a mostly thankless job.  It was much appreciated.

Of course after the fact I prayed I had grabbed the bottle with the fancy new pull top :-0

So with that, I encourage you to find some small way to make someones day just a bit brighter today.