As an incredible surprise, a food service worker in a Chicago area children’s hospital, Jessie Tendayi, saved up for an amazing surprise for the children who were at the hospital, keeping the surprise all to herself. The worker, 54 years old, working at the Advocate Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, does something very special. She saves her hard earned cash to do something special for the children at the hospital at Christmas, however, this year her surprise really blew everyone away! The Chicago Tribune reports that Tendayi saved up all year and spent around $5,000 of her own money to buy 1,300 toys, doing all the shopping for the toys herself! Tendayi said to the Chicago Tribune:

“I have to do what I have to do to make the children happy”

Tendayi arrived at the Hospital and Advocate Lutheran General, in Park Ridge, on the 12th December with the toys and the children were able to walk through all the awesome gifts and choose one for themselves. She began buying the toys for the children back in 2009, and on that year she bought, in comparison, 100 presents for the children in the hospital. Each year since then she has tried to increase the number of presents she buys, arriving at an incredible 1,300 this year!

Tendayi said:

“Why do I do it? God put it in my heart” … “One day I was watching TV and I saw children in need. I asked myself, ‘What should I do for them to calm down what they are going through?’ So I started saving my money to make sure the children had something to play with while they are sick, so they can forget their pain.”

Zimbabwe was the hometown of Tendayi where she moved from around 19 years ago, the two didn’t have any children, but, she says:

“I do now. I do have a lot.”

18 years ago Tendayi was hired to work in the hospital cafeteria and while she makes a modest living with her job, it’s not a lot, but nevertheless, she has a savings account where every month she sets aside money to save up for Christmas presents for the children. Tendayi said:

“It’s not about being rich. It’s not about money” …“The little we have, we can share. For me, it’s a blessing. I’m able to make a difference for the children. Children, they need somebody who cares about them. You want to make a difference to them. I felt in my heart I had to do something for the children.”

The biggest gift is seeing how the children appreciate the gifts, Tendayi says the children make her feel like she actually has a huge family of her own. She also said:

“I’m happy. I’m happy to do this” … “When God puts this in your heart, you don’t get tired.You love what you’re doing. I love helping other people.”

The most incredible times in your life, as a new mom is when you get to know the sex of your baby, maybe as a surprise or well before the birth actually happens, it’s a great and happy moment. She can imagine the colour and plan the nursery, even see in her mind’s eye the future of her little one and the many many cute outfits she will buy! Katie Whiddon was nervously waiting for her 18 week ultrasound and hoping that her baby was a little girl, but when the ultrasound tech left the room in a hurry, she thought maybe she could quite be sure of something she saw, maybe it was hard to tell the sex of the baby properly? The tech came back with a doctor, which must have felt maybe a little reassuring that a doctor was there too now, and Katie was feeling absolutely positive and unquestioning that there could at all be a problem!

The doctor had some terrible news to tell her:

“Things aren’t good. Things are really bad…”

Katie was made aware of a problem, she was having a son that didn’t have any legs and only had upper arms… She did consider many options before this moment happened, but she never even give this possibility a second thought, she couldn’t believe that her precious baby would never walk or ride a bike, or even be able to simply just hold hands. Not wanting her son to have a life of hardships and suffering, she made an appointment for an abortion, she did, however, pray for peace, but all she could do was cry and cry! She talked to her mom and her sister, she needed to know if she was really doing the right thing, and deep down she knew that she had to keep her baby. She found out after that other people had been praying for her and her strength too, that night! She knew straight away that things were going to be incredibly difficult, especially as a single mom, but thankfully her family were so supportive and completely understood and supported her decision. They encouraged her to move home so they could be a bigger part of her life and to help her go to college.

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Moving forward three years and her son, Camden, was really doing well for himself, in fact, a video of him and his little bro went viral with over 60,000 like on Facebook. The video shows Camden being calmed down by his baby brother as he gives him his pacifier. Katie is so proud of her sons, and how they really look after each other even now! https://www.instagram.com/p/BYgDN7VBi3I/ Katie Wrote:

“I know that most people look at Camden and think, poor child. But when he gets comfortable in his surroundings and starts doing things on his own, everyone always gathers around to watch!”

“Don’t underestimate someone just because of the cover they were born in”

Katie Whiddon is so grateful that she actually did make the right decision to give her son life, every day is amazing!

A coming of age birthday is marked, usually, by the ages 16 or 18 depending on your family and your location, but at least in the USA and UK 16 is a pretty significant milestone, and certainly in the USA this coming of age represents the time when you can legally drive a car of your own, licence permitting of course! This undoubtedly is one of those times when a lot of 16-year-olds receive a car to mark their passage into having more independence, and of course, this is duly noted by advertisers on TV, and television commercials too! So when you see a video of a father leading a daughter, blindfolded, outside to unwrap, maybe, a car, too many teenagers it’s a dream come true! Dad took the blindfold off his daughter, while mom was recording the whole thing, in front of her was a large tarpaulin and a large ‘something’ underneath the tarp, she started to laugh nervously and excitedly! The mom was recording this reveal as both dad and daughter were laughing, was it too short to be a car? Her dad played along with the thought that it could be a car, he said:

“Darling, this is for you.” … “Cuz you’ve been such a good girl…We thought you’d need your own car.”

She was still laughing and guessed that it could be a boat, but her father insisted it was a car! Finally, he lifted up the tarp, to reveal her ‘car’ underneath, his daughter started laughing even more! Underneath the tarp was hidden a small three-wheeler motorized vehicle. This is the best moment to just simply pause the video and admire completely the effort dad make for this prank, the long branches of wood taped together to make the shape of a car! All the effort paid off and really made his daughter laughed and laughed. His daughter was completely in with the joke now and appreciated the humour absolutely, darting around the new vehicle and giving mom the video a thumbs up for the great birthday gift. For sure this was a truly memorable 16th birthday, and all captured on video, awesome right? Wouldn’t you be encouraged as a dad to now do such an awesome funny prank too, provided of course you had a real birthday gift too, would you?

There are so many things in life that pass us by and that we pass by and ponder a moment to think, “I wonder what that was about?” , but in the case of Pavel Fesyuk, who decided to investigate the curious situation he encountered, it was a good decision! Pavel is a talented man and not only a former contestant on the television show American Ninja Warrior, but also a mixed martial arts fighter! But upon his curiosity and investigation, he wouldn’t need those talents… He just needed a strong sense of duty to help others in need.

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— Pavel Fesyuk (@PFesyuk) December 23, 2015

Pavel was driving his car at the time and he saw that a car had stopped on the side of the road and a man was next to the car, it was William Harris and he wasn’t just standing next to the car… He was actually, and more descriptively, doubled over! Pavel was not quite sure what was going on but he felt a deep sense that he should do something. When Pavel got close to William he straight away made it clear that he needed help, he was choking! Pavel thought that a good pat on the back would help this guy in distress, but it was very apparent that he needed drastic help, and fast! Pavel quickly wrapped his hands around William Harris, stood behind him, and rather expertly performed the Heimlich Maneuver! After two large contractions William could breathe again, thankfully, and amazingly it was all captured on the dashboard camera of Pavel’s car!!

The newsgroup ABC News posted the video to their Facebook Page there were a lot of people that were, of course, very proud of Pavel, in fact, Jennifer Guggisberg said:

“This world needs more people like this!! God Bless Him!”

And… Joyce Caro said:

“God Bless that Good Samaritan. I am proud of him, right there and then, there was no black or white, just being a good person.”

After William could literally take a breath again, a full clear breath, he and Pavel had a conversation, albeit brief, before they returned to their own cars! I hope if one day if I was choking that some amazing person would come to help me too, what a terrible way to die if you were to choke for the sake of a helping hand! Or maybe Shakespeare could compare it to the loss of his kingdom for the sake of a horse?

Some people think of themselves as spiritual, some think of the world analytically, and some even consider statistics and patterns and how things are organized. From our daily circumstances, many of us seek inspiration and even the meaning of what we are doing, or is life just a collection of coincidences? The birth of the beautiful Matthew James Eppard brought everyone together, on the 1st July there is going to be a great celebration for the Colorado family! But the statistics show that the coming of baby Beauden’s birth show an amazing 33,000 to 1, 8 pounds 11 ounces was the weight of the little baby born on the same date as his father and great grandfather!

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James Morrisette was brought into the world on 1st July 1931, and daddy to the little baby was proud Connor James Eppard born the 1sy July 1990. Beauden was the third boy in four generations that was born on this exact date, and his grandfather Rik chose to blaze a brand new trail in 1963, on a birth date of the 9th December.

Rik and indeed everyone else too in this close group are over the moon about this new addition to the family, but what was even more amazing was that Beauden’s due date was scheduled, originally, for the end of July. So what could have changed? Jordyn Eppard, Mom needed an emergency C section! This C section procedure was the safest for baby in the circumstance, but proud daddy Connor has said, joking, that it was God’s way of keeping the family tradition.

Connor explained that considering the birth date was what helped them decide to give him the additional name of James, the full name picked originally was Beauden Matthew. When the baby made his big entry on the 1st July it seemed fitting to honour Morrisette in this special, forever continuing way. The birth date may well show incredible tiny odds, but the odds of little Beauden being loved always and forever are easily 100%.

Mila Stauffer, a two year old from Arizona was with her family of seven when they set out for Michigan, having no idea that it would get so complicated at the airport the family seldom got to do much without getting much unwanted attention. So, going to the airport wasn’t an exception either, after all getting five children through baggage control was no easy task, but they did it. But, when the time came to go through security controls little Mila wasn’t prepared to go happily. The second Mila’s family came home she needed to get off her chest about their experience. Talking into mom’s camera she tells us her opinion about long lines, security checks of her brother and the absolute lack of accessible bathrooms, she was not prepared for this at all, so much so that she just had to share! When you’re an adult travelling is pretty hard, but when you’re a toddler it’s almost impossible and little amazing Mila had no time at all for it! Mila explained exactly why she thought the security at the airport was so terrible, her mom was doing her level best not to let out a giggle, this little girl is not to be diced with! Mila never has any problems speaking out and telling us what she thinks, and her mom captured it on video to share with us all, it’s gone completely viral! Right at the end of the video Mila looked purposely into the camera and said, pointedly, that she has had it with TSA and “NEVER AGAIN” does she want to have that experience. Unfortunately for Mila if she does want to fly again, with her family, undoubtedly she will be going to have even more experiences with them and of course we will be ready to hear all about it! We have seen Mila rant about things before, but this time it’s really something we can relate to more so than any other time!

Take a little look at her rant for yourself in the video below. She’s so funny!