dear gramma-my-little-gramma,

happiest of happy birthdays to you!

happy…happy…99 years!

what an extraordinary woman you are!

what an incredibly wonderful example you’ve just always been to me…living your one life…just so incredibly wonderfully!

what an exceedingly blessed girl i am…to have had that woman of proverbs 31…walking out her life right in front of me!

oh, how i do long to be more and more…just like you!

and this morning, it truly was just the most bestest unbirthday present…

brought just the most unexpected tears…

when i told you how very grateful i am for you…and that “i love you”…

and you said…“i love you too”…

you!  loving me!

just…truly…the most best…

how utterly-and-absolutely grateful i am…for you!

very sincerely,
me