05/02/2026
Another year for Zander! He celebrated his 9th birthday! 🥳
This is one, that for whatever reason my brain just couldn’t get right.
First, I was out of packing bags, so I had to cover his balloons with whatever I had. That turned out to be bad. I delivered it with an open bottom and the gr***de fell out onto the floor and none of knew that. Poor Zander! I try to hard to make things as fair as possible between he and his brother. I’m positive he was expecting his gr***de and it wasn’t there. 😞
THEN, to make matters worse, when I did find it, I sent a message to his grandma explaining what had happened and told her I would get it to his school immediately! Grandma sent me a photo of him and his balloons. He was smiling and wearing a #9 Birthday shirt! WHAT???!!! 🤯 His balloons should have said 9 not 8….I felt doubly mad at myself. You know, we adults can go with the flow. But, a child’s birthday is literally everything and I know that. I made a special bag of birthday goodies with more balloons and delivered them to his school.
Zander, I am so very sorry. Miss Cheryl will do better next time. 😊 💖