Mom Grateful To Payless Employees Who Paid For Her Children’s Shoes; Publicly Thanks Them On Facebook

A mom from Connecticut is more than grateful to two Payless employees who generously helped her pay for her children's shoes. The mom took to the shoe store's official Facebook page to thank them.

Last Jan. 21, Katy Sypher-Piper went to Payless looking for shoes she can buy for her daughter Ava, 2, and Andrew, 10 months, according to Yahoo Parenting. She said she could only afford to spend a total of $30 for the shoes but saw that Payless was having a "buy one, get one" promo at the time.

Sypher-Piper asked for the employees' help in measuring the children's feet and let them know about her budget. They talked about how her daughter, Ava, extremely loves "Frozen," as well as her medical history. The mom shared that Ava has issues with her respiratory system, which causes her to sometimes stop breathing. She also revealed that she's anxiously waiting for her daughter's test results, which was all she could think about.

Ava chose a pair of Frozen boots, which was selling for $44, way beyond her budget for two pairs of shoes. Sypher-Piper said that she was on the verge of crying when the Payless employees "began putting their heads together about coupons and how to get [the] price down."

Not long after, the amazing Payless employees told the mom that they would pay for her children's boots along with some socks and "Star Wars," "Frozen" and "Cars" stickers, as reported by NBC 4i. She wrote on Payless' Facebook page, "These wonderful, amazing employees of yours told me they were paying for my kids' boots and socks, that I had enough to worry about, and to use the money for the kids and food." The post has garnered more than 8,700 likes and about 1,545 shares.

"I have been pretty down lately, and this act of kindness is so amazing and uplifting to me," she said. "I am so grateful and wanted to say a big thank you and hope you have some sort of employee recognition program."