My Grammie comes over to our house to play with the girls virtually every week. For 3.5 years she had a “playdate” with Nadia and now she has 2 great-granddaughters to have fun with. Nadia adores her and I know Amelie will love these weekly visits just as much as Nadia as soon as she is big enough to understand. This is such a special thing for me to see because growing up I didn’t live near my Grammie. So my special treats were packages that I got from her in the mail or letters written in her beautiful handwriting.
On Christmas Eve my mom would let me open one gift and I ALWAYS picked the one from my Grammie. Once I complained to my Grammie that “nothing ever says Louanne. Ever!” I was referring to things like personalized mugs and keychains. That year for my birthday I got a box full of things with my name on them and it was SO COOL!! A package of personalized pencils for school, a wood carving of my name for my bedroom desk, a watch with my name on the face and more. IT.WAS.AWESOME.
What made me think of all of this today was my Nancy Drew collection. I was getting excited thinking about Nadia learning to read and how when she and Amelie are big enough they can read all my books! I have the entire collection because my Grammie mailed me 3 -4 books at a time throughout my childhood until I had the entire collection of the original 56.
This post could be 10 times longer, but my point is to say that I am blessed that Grammie is such a part of my life and now my girls lives. I love you Grammie!