You’ve met my youngest grandie, Samantha Lynn Mayne Casey, many times on this blog. I’ve been chronicling our adventures for ten years now and we’ve watched her grow. She is the youngest of my four grandies, born the year I retired, and we’ve had so many wonderful adventures together — watching “toodles”, playing with Paw Patrol, riding our Magic Carpets to DisneyWorld, weekly sleep-overs, drawing lots of pictures, learning to play the piano — and we look forward to making many more memories to cherish. She has always been a happy little girl and a joy to her Jojo and Grandpa.
Birth! 1 year
She’s busy today at an Archery tournament, so we celebrated together last Monday at Eastland Mall. Build-a-Bear has a birthday bear that costs a dollar per year of your existence, so our mission was to add all the bells and whistles and clothes to make a great new stuffie. Mission Accomplished…
Then we were off to the food court for some ice cream rolls from DinoIce. She chose a concoction of strawberries and banana in her ice cream rolls, topped with cotton candy, made right there with special strawberry flavoring, that was to die for.
I had a freebie coupon from Bath & Body, so we also picked up an Ariel hangy thing for her backpack. We were happy.
There are no words that adequately express the Love we feel for our children and grandchildren, but we try…
Happiest of Birthdays, dear Samantha! I wish you Love and Happiness for all of your days.
Where have the years gone? As I watched this little imp grow up, I’ve grown old…er.
We did a photoshoot on Sunday when I presented her presents.
About seven or eight years ago, Nova, the artist formerly known as Olivia, was with us on a family vacation to Disney World. In the Germany Pavilion, she put up a request for a Duffy bear, and I quickly shot it down — it was a $50 teddy bear and I was being cheap. She wasn’t happy with me. All of these years, I’ve felt guilty about that and this year I determined to buy her a Duffy while we were at WDW. Duffy, by the way, is allegedly the teddy bear of Mickey Mouse. To my dismay, the only Duffy bears sold today are at Tokyo or Hong Kong Disney.
So I took to Ebay and found a lovely Happy Birthday Duffy that I ordered up. When the package arrived and I opened it, there was a Velveteen Rabbit — very sweet, but Not Duffy. The seller got in touch to say she had sent Duff to the wrong person and if we’d both send them back, we’d get it all straightened out. We did, but in the meantime, I was refunded my money. I tried to get the money to the seller, but according to their rules, I couldn’t send a check. When I told them who Duffy was for, they requested I give the $$ to my grand-daughter alongside Duffy. Sweet. Doesn’t get much cheaper than that, huh?
She loved it…
Obviously, I love this young lady, but I also admire and respect her. She’s a good kid and gives me great hope for the future of our world.
Join me in wishing her a lifetime of Happiness and Peace…
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