I love my job.

Last night I had an 8 1/2 hour shift that was going to last until 1 in the morning. No matter how much someone likes their job, that's never going to be a shift that anyone looks forward to. But the thing I love about working at Disney is that there is going to be something that happens every day to turn your day around.

Guests come to Walt Disney World for a variety of reasons. Birthdays. Anniversaries. Family reunions. Celebrating a toddler going poopy on the potty (it happened). You name it, they celebrate it. And there are buttons they can wear to let everyone around them know what they're here for. Last night, there was a little girl and her family looking to do some pin trading with me and my co-worker. I had some extra Ariel pins in my pocket that I was told to give to a child that I felt really deserved it or could use an extra smile. As I was leaning over I noticed bandages on the girls arm and a celebration button on her shirt that said "cancer free". The second I saw that I turned to her mom and shared just a look of complete relief and joy. I turned to the girl and asked if she liked Ariel. As she sheepishly nodded, I pulled the pins from my pocket and gave her a beautiful pin, and asked her younger brother if he would like Sebastian. The smiles on their faces (well, mostly hers. The brother was a little shy) made my whole night 5 million times better. I almost started crying as I thought about how young this girl, probably between 8-10, was already a survivor and already had been through so much, and I had the privilege to meet her and add just one extra smile to the last day of her trip.

I love this job so much.