Earlier today I was at Wal-Mart with a friend. We split up to do our shopping and planned on meeting at the Subway at the front of the store in an hour. I didn’t have many things to pick up so it didn’t take me long. I grabbed a salad at Subway and sat down to wait until my friend was done.

The coolest thing happened and it actually shocked me. I was given the sweetest compliment by someone of the other sex. What made it the greatest compliment ever was the fact that it was from a stranger and he wasn’t a man or even a guy…he was a boy! I’m guessing he was either 8 or 9 – looked to be about Caleb’s age or a little younger.

I saw him come in with his mom and they sat in the booth in front of me. The little boy sat on the side of the booth facing towards me and she sat with her back to me. I noticed that he kept looking at me so I smiled at him. The mom told her son to stop staring it wasn’t nice. The little boy said but mommy she’s so pretty.

At first I wasn’t sure I heard him correctly but then the mother turned around and said I don’t know if you heard that or not but my son thinks you are so pretty. LOL She introduced herself, her son (get this – his name is also Caleb!!!!) and we ended up chatting for quite awhile, until my friend was done with her shopping and came in & told me she was ready.

I was amazed and shocked that this little boy spoke those words. It really touched my heart and kind of made my day…LMAO! It’s nice when a man or a guy compliments you but to have a young man, a little boy speak those words the term compliment takes on a whole different meaning. I’m still kind of smiling thinking about it.

And what’s even cooler, the mom and I exchanged phone numbers and we are going to get our Caleb’s together to play! How cool is that?

I’d like to say that I did something extremely extraordinaire with myself to ’stand out’ but all I did was my hair & make-up and had something other than lounge clothes on but for whatever reason that little boy thought I was pretty and it truly was the greatest compliment!