One afternoon while Noelle had her friend Griffyn over we decided it was time to hide our word rocks.

We collected rocks, painted and decorated them. After continually talking about it, Noelle and I decided it was time to make our own word rocks and find a place to hide them for others to receive as much fun as we did finding them the first time. Summer has now (sadly) passed but the joy and excitement that came with finding these word rocks remains. It was all the kids talked about for days. In the end, each child kept one rock that they identified most with and then took the other rocks back to hide again for others to find. We also had an opportunity to talk about what all the messages meant in depth and what that meant personally to each child. It gave them a chance to make some big decisions too…leave the rocks for others to find or keep them for themselves.

I'm a big fan of random acts of kindness and the look on the kids faces when they found the rocks was priceless. There is so much I love about this little project. A simple and sweet project started by a mother and her son in San Diego, California. I popped on the internet and found the origins of the word rock story here. On the back of each rock was written #wordrocks. Later in the day Noelle and her friend went for a walk and found tons of these little beauties. She had stumbled on a treasure trail of rocks that had been decorated and adorned with lovely, inspiring messages – they were everywhere in the forest, dozens of them. Later I made my way onto Facebook and saw that my friend had posted a collection of amazing photos of kids holding these beautiful rocks with messages written on them. Eventually my daughter slowly popped her head out of bed and I was thrilled she'd had a nice long sleep. About an hour or so later my persistent friend texted me again saying “it's so amazing, come for a walk.” It was a foggy, drizzly morning so I assumed she meant that the forest looked quite beautiful that morning, again, nothing I was interested in waking up my daughter for and I couldn't leave her unattended. My daughter had a very late night the night before so I really didn't want to wake her up. We were staying at the lake when my friend texted us early in the morning to come for a walk. Word Rocks – This summer we had a really neat experience being introduced to word rocks.

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