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demmiblue

(36,944 posts)
Thu Sep 1, 2022, 07:38 PM Sep 2022

I once gave one of my very (fav) teachers one of my very favorite toys. Fast forward three decades.

I once gave one of my very teachers one of my very favorite toys. Fast forward three decades. I had twins. Yesterday, I got a package in the mail. 😭












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I once gave one of my very (fav) teachers one of my very favorite toys. Fast forward three decades. (Original Post) demmiblue Sep 2022 OP
That is a beautiful story. MOMFUDSKI Sep 2022 #1
That toy looks so familiar - I think I or some other kid in my family had one. Ocelot II Sep 2022 #2
i collect old fisher price. mopinko Sep 2022 #22
Not only a bee, a Queen bee! jaxexpat Sep 2022 #24
brb, going to ebay. mopinko Sep 2022 #26
I am sure we did also Ferrets are Cool Sep 2022 #27
So grateful to have been raised by a teacher. TNNurse Sep 2022 #3
Congrats on your twins! SheltieLover Sep 2022 #4
I rarely post..but I had to ..to a beautiful moment. thank you n/t rsweets Sep 2022 #5
What a Rebl2 Sep 2022 #6
Wonderful! Congrats! paleotn Sep 2022 #7
Very sweet story, and a very sweet teacher (and Mom)! Evolve Dammit Sep 2022 #8
Made my evening mgardener Sep 2022 #9
Damn onion ninjas! spudspud Sep 2022 #10
Right? -nt CrispyQ Sep 2022 #11
Yep, they got me good this time. /nt spudspud Sep 2022 #23
She obviously took very good care of it. alphafemale Sep 2022 #12
FABULOUS! elleng Sep 2022 #13
That is wonderful. Sky Jewels Sep 2022 #14
There are nice people out there. Aussie105 Sep 2022 #15
Cool story! nt Wounded Bear Sep 2022 #16
OMG! A Buzzy Bee! calimary Sep 2022 #17
Aww 🥰 iluvtennis Sep 2022 #18
I have twin granddaughters, almost 5 SCantiGOP Sep 2022 #19
Teachers are awesome! FakeNoose Sep 2022 #20
the BEE! i loved that bee!!! orleans Sep 2022 #21
Dad here. The Jungle 1 Sep 2022 #25
What a great person, I bet she really cared about her students. Teachers are SO important Ziggysmom Sep 2022 #28
A teacher that makes a lasting impression is great. Woodwizard Sep 2022 #29
It's great that you kept in touch. Conjuay Sep 2022 #30
demmiblue............. Upthevibe Sep 2022 #31

mopinko

(70,419 posts)
22. i collect old fisher price.
Fri Sep 2, 2022, 12:03 AM
Sep 2022

dont have a bee, but i have a chicken, and sparky the clown.
i had teddy bear w a drum, but a friend of mine has a grandson named teddy, so i gave it to her.

Sky Jewels

(7,224 posts)
14. That is wonderful.
Thu Sep 1, 2022, 09:18 PM
Sep 2022

I'm in touch with my 3rd grade teacher on social media (she was a young woman in the mid-70s). I recently had a bit of professional success. She found out about it and left me a comment saying she was proud of me. That made me blubber like I was still 8 years old. We never leave the people of our childhoods behind; they are always with us.

And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

calimary

(81,637 posts)
17. OMG! A Buzzy Bee!
Thu Sep 1, 2022, 09:40 PM
Sep 2022

I had one of those when I was a little kid! LOVED it!

This one's in really great shape for being that old!

SCantiGOP

(13,880 posts)
19. I have twin granddaughters, almost 5
Thu Sep 1, 2022, 09:44 PM
Sep 2022

I get to watch them 3 days a week.
Twins are amazing. Everyone in the family jokes about how did any of us ever raise a single child - it would be so boring.
They were a Caesarian birth, but the first one taken out insists that’s she is the big sister, which really irritates the other.

 

The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts)
25. Dad here.
Fri Sep 2, 2022, 08:21 AM
Sep 2022

Wash this toy with strong soap and check to make sure everything is still safe and attached. Plastic deteriorates over time. Some of these old toys have unsafe levels of lead, cadmium and mercury etc. The toy might be a good decoration!
Dad out

Ziggysmom

(3,444 posts)
28. What a great person, I bet she really cared about her students. Teachers are SO important
Fri Sep 2, 2022, 03:06 PM
Sep 2022

in a young child's life; they deserve much more respect and compensation than they receive.

Woodwizard

(854 posts)
29. A teacher that makes a lasting impression is great.
Fri Sep 2, 2022, 04:26 PM
Sep 2022

My Vo Tech cabinet making teacher was great, besides my time in the Army I have been professionally in the woodworking field a lot of credit goes to him, he passed a long time ago but I still remember him and his patience and teaching ability.

That is great your teacher kept it, must of had a lot of meaning to her.

Conjuay

(1,457 posts)
30. It's great that you kept in touch.
Fri Sep 2, 2022, 06:35 PM
Sep 2022

My wife has been a teacher for forty wears and, regrettably, has not stayed close to any of her students. She will often be recognized in a store, but each year brings a sea of new faces; and forty years can make any eight year old impossible to recognize.
You twins look beautiful.
Loved hearing part of your journey.

Upthevibe

(8,122 posts)
31. demmiblue.............
Fri Sep 2, 2022, 09:42 PM
Sep 2022

...........As a teacher, I'm not crying....those damn onions....

Those babies are precious....

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