Shad's Funeral

I have had some requests from people wanting to hear the funeral services for Shad.  The mortuary made and audio recording and I added a few pictures to make it a movie and easier to add to my blog.  Hopefully it works for all of you. 

Shad(RAK)'d

Once we found out that Shad wasn't going to be able to beat the cancer I began thinking about things we could do to keep his story alive.  Shad loved to make other people happy whether it be by doing something big or small.  One time we put quarters in the change slot of the soda machines at the hospital, Shad thought that was so fun, and talked about it frequently when we would go for appointments.  He loved drawing pictures for the nurses, and would light up as he called them into his room to present them to him.  As I thought about how happy he was when doing things for others, I knew that was what we should do in his honor.  So we came up with You've been Shad(RAK)'d.  If you would like to participate by doing Random Acts of Kindness (or not random ones) for others, please download and print out the following flyers and get started.

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Here are some ideas for Random Acts of Kindness that we have come up with.   Please feel free to share any other ideas in the comments and I will add them here.

• Leave cash or a gift card in a book at the bookstore or library
• Purchase 5 dollar gift cards and give them away
• Give coloring books and crayons to children or donate them somewhere
• Give bubbles to children
• Pay for somebody else's meal at a restaurant or drive-thru
• Leave pennies at a fountain for people to make wishes
• Write a thank you note to someone from your past
• Take a treat to a local fire or police station 
• Buy a candy bar for the cashier at the grocery store
• Tape quarters to a candy or vending machine
• Leave a package of microwave popcorn on a redbox machine
• Help someone load things into their car
• Give flowers to someone 
• Make (bake, crochet, sew, draw, etc) something and give it away
• Leave a kind note on somebody's windshield
• Give something (money, food, toiletries) to a person on a street corner
• Bury treasure at a park
• Leave something on someone's doorstep
• Leave a treat/thank you note for your mailman
• See more ideas on my Acts of Kindness pinboard here