We're mending

Not socks. I hate mending socks (hence lots of holes in our socks). Our bodies. The doctor thinks it was the flu we went through, and yeah, this was the year we didn't get the flu shot. All six of us went to church today, Seth even went to nursery. Wow! We talked about keeping him out for one more week, he has a cough, but as soon as Amen was said to the last prayer in Sacrament meeting, Rocket Boy ran for the nursery. Can you believe it took six months of crying to get him to go in the first place? Now it's his favorite place in the world. Beside the candy jar, of course. So, point is that we're all doing better. We all took (enforced for some of them) naps after church because we all still have coughs. But the light is coming and soon we will sniffle and cough free.

This week I decided to do the Random Acts of Kindness for my BYU wellness goal.
Random Acts of Kindness: Do five random acts of kindness this week. You can smile at a stranger, hold the elevator door for a co-worker, let a car in front of you on the highway, etc.

I'm not sure if I completed it or not. Can the random acts be for family and people I see all the time? 'Cause I spent very, very little time outside of the house this week. If so here's my list:
1. I picked up the kids from school, even though technically it wasn't my turn.
2. In one of my few excursions out of the house, I smiled at a couple that were pushing a baby stroller into a store. The husband looked really excited (that's sarcasm, if you can't hear my voice) and the wife looked like she had to pull out the big guns to get him to come at all, and then didn't know if it was worth the outcome. But when I smiled at her, she grinned back.
3. I drove three of the YW home in our weird thunder/lightening/snow storm on Wednesday. The girls couldn't believe the lightening, and kept saying "A THUNDER SNOW Storm!" You could hear the capitol letters in their voices.
4. On Valentines Day morning, even though I felt bleeechhh, I got up and made pink pancakes for breakfast, and even put in some of the m&m's that I got for my birthday. That's sacrifice, right there. OK, not really, but the kids giggled when they saw the pink pancakes. Felicity thought they looked better than the green ones I made for St. Patrick's day last year: I concur. I do need to add to the story, I mixed the pancakes up and got about half cooked and then Farris took over because I was looking a little green. Or gray. Just not like I should. That's a kindness, right there.
5. I washed the dishes a couple times this week for Farris. He does the dishes in our house, probably 95% of the time, but this week he got sick (ha, imagine that in our house), not quite as high fevers as the kids, but achey, tired, headaches, stuffed up, chills, cough and all that. He actually stayed home from work for three days. If you know Farris, that's not something he does very often. So I helped him as much as I could, and he made sure I got a nap in the afternoons, and we both got through.
So that's my list. It doesn't feel like I did anything out of the ordinary, just the kind of the stuff all of us do everyday. Except for smiling at the strangers, everything was for friends/family. There's no way I would have let those girls walk home in that storm, and of course I wasn't going to let Farris do the dishes while he was shaking from the chills. I don't know. I think goals are something that stretch you, but this week probably wasn't a week I could stretch much, anyway. What do you guys think? Did I fulfill the goal?