"I love you, Daddy"

In the three-minute video linked below, which has gone viral, a little boy named Carlton sees his daddy preparing to leave for work and wants to say he loves him.

There's really no way to explain how he does this. You'll just have to watch the video. Enjoy!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5uhtbGvwWA

Jeremy's Easter egg

Jeremy was born mentally retarded, with a chronic illness that would prevent him from reaching adulthood. When he was 12, he was still in second grade at St. Teresa's School, seemingly unable to learn. His teacher, Doris Miller, suggested to Jeremy's parents that he be enrolled in a special school. She had 18 other children to teach, and Jeremy was a distraction. After pleas from his parents. she agreed to let Jeremy stay, and try to be more patient with him. That spring, the students were excited about Easter. She gave each student a large plastic egg and asked them to go home and fill it with something that shows new life. The next morning, 19 children dropped their eggs in a basket on Mrs. Miller's desk. She opened them one-by-one. The first one contained a flower. "Oh yes, that shows new life," she said. The next contained a plastic butterfly that looked real. "We all know how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly," she remarked approvingly. The third egg contained nothing. She was about to put it aside and reach for another when Jeremy spoke up. "Don't you want to talk about my egg?" he asked. "But Jeremy, your egg is empty," she said. He looked into her eyes and said, "Yes, but Jesus' tomb was empty too." When she could speak again, she asked him if he knew why the tomb was empty. "Oh yes!" Jeremy said. "Jesus was killed and put in there, but the Father raised him up." The recess bell rang, and all the children ran outside, but Mrs. Miller wept. Her impatience with Jeremy had melted away.

Three months later, Jeremy died. Those who paid their respects at the mortuary were surprised to see 19 plastic eggs on top of his casket -- all of them empty.

Would you believe this if you saw it?

Two Girl Scouts named Norah Wall and Ruthie Bridgman were selling cookies outside a grocery store in Seattle, Washington, recently when a random woman asked how much it would cost to buy all their inventory. They had more then 120 boxes, and she bought them all for over $600.

But she wasn't stocking up for the year. Instead she paid for all the cookies and then asked the Scouts to hand out the boxes to random people FOR FREE. Here's the best part. Customers entering the store were so impressed that they found ways to pay it forward, like helping each other have exact change. At least one shopper paid for her own groceries and the groceries for the person behind her, and the person in front of her. Free Girl Scout cookies really make people sweet.

The many benefits of puppy love

Brenden Greeley is a 43-year-old Maryland father of four. His daughter wanted a puppy more than anything else, but he was reluctant, so she launched a 3-month campaign to change his mind. By studying his habits, she knew he always sat down to read his morning newspaper, so she added a headline at the top of one page. Here it is.

Her dad was so amused that he posted this picture on Twitter, where it was shared thousands of times and even got retweeted by J.K. Rowling. Finally the family adopted a puppy named J.K, Growling, and Greeley used his media fame to promise that for every donation to the Ann Arundel SPCA or any other rescue organization, he would post another picture of J.K. Growling to Twitter. The local SPCA has received a flood of donations, and an ad agency offered Greeley's daughter a job. He wrote back to them, "As soon as we get her to remember to make her bed every morning, we'll send her your way."

Haircuts done with love

For two years, Lisa McKenzie tried to give 10-year-old Jordie Rowlands a haircut. He's autistic, so she sat on the floor with him in the barber shop, met him there after hours, and even tried to give him a trim at his home, but no luck. He was scared and could not stay still. After she was disciplined by her boss for giving a haircut after the shop closed, she resigned and opened her own shop. Failure to cut Jordie's hair did not discourage her.

"It made me want to connect with him so I could take away his fear," she said, and then one day it happened. She starting singing "The People on the Bus" and he grew completely calm. She said she did not know he was into nursery rhymes. She was finally able to give him a full haircut. "Amazingly, he now interacts with me and I even get a hug at the end," she says. Since posting this news on Facebook, she now has 100 special needs customers and has trained four other barbers how to deal with them. At her shop, one Sunday each month is set aside for autism-friendly appointments only.

"I like you just the way you are."

A heart-warming movie about the life of Fred Rogers will soon be a a theater near you. As many remember, Rogers used his television show to teach children how to love each other and overcome emotional challenges.

"Mr. Roger's Neighborhood," was so popular that it still beloved by adults today, even though it went off the air in 2001. Award-winning documentarian Morgan Nevill is making the movie, in which Mr. Rogers will be played by Tom Hanks. PLEASE take your children and grandchildren to see this movie, which will be in select theaters on June 8. Here's a link to the trailer.  Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhwktRDG_aQ

Three jelly donuts and $2,000

Bill Kelly lives in The Villages, Florida. Recently he and his three-year-old granddaughter, Sophia, had a date. He took her to Dunkin' Donuts in Brownwood, where little Sophia immediately noticed an envelope on the floor. Grandpa opened it and it contained more than $2,000 in cash. That's when Sophia's conscience kicked in. She insisted they must return the money to the owner, since it was not theirs. Kelly, a retired police officer, agreed.

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The envelope full of money also contained the owner's credit card, so Kelly found the name in the phone book and called, but nobody answered. Then he noticed that one of his former law enforcement colleagues, now retired, lived on the same street as the credit card owner, so he called his friend and they returned the cash and credit card to the owner, Shelby Hughes, shown above. "I thought I put that envelope back in my purse," she said. Hughes is a former school teacher and truly appreciated Sophia's determination to find the envelope's owner. She said she was glad "the right people" found the envelope.