You know how sometimes you'll see or read something that touches you so much you actually cry? Well this made me cry big tears and again reminded me to be thankful for my many blessings. :) 
I just have to say something about the manager at the store in NorthPark Center in Dallas. I'm going to cry sharing this.... It's long so sorry.... My daughter has several medical issues she deals with. This trip to Dallas was one of many we have done from Arkansas to Dallas. Today she is four days out from a skull/brain surgery. She had the surgery on Monday. We are still keeping pain under control as needed and trying to get Christina to drink more. However she has begged us to ride the DART trains since we got here. Since she is post-op we did that today. The plan was to just to ride one up and down once then get back to the Ronald McDonald House. As we were on the train, a worker on there mentioned the Park Lane mall. We figured we would do lunch in there, see a few shops then head back. Well, I wanted to check out Build-a-Bear to find out about doing a gift for Christina when we come back for the post-op appointment. We didn't have the money for that right now. Well, the manager was asking about Christina and her story. I gave him one of her Caringbridge cards and told him my plans with a bear for Christina later. Even then I wouldn't be able to do too fancy. Well, we went across the 'hall' to the Lego store to see something in there. The manager from Build-a-Bear got our attention and said he wanted us to come back to make a bear for Christina. I was like 'Now?' He said yes and that it was on the two of them. They did this on their own to make her day. So the bear you see in the pic is what Christina got today thanks to the generosity of the two men in the picture. The outfit the bear has on is Spider-Man and it has Spider-Man shoes on as well. All of this was on these two kind men. The one on the left is the manager. I have tears in my eyes thanks to this and right now Christina is taking a nap with her new bear she decided to name Jenny after someone here who works at the Ronald McDonald House in Dallas. The manager from the Lego Store also gave Christina some Lego men. :-) Today was more then I expected it to be. If we can get Christina to drink more, we will go home tomorrow!!! Thank you for having such good kindhearted employees! God Bless!
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