12/21/2021
FOLKS, THE DAY HAS COME ....
TUESDAY DECEMBER 21st, OUR "52nd ANNUAL" LONG AWAITED, "PUFFBALL ASSEMBLY"
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CALLING ALL FAMILIES OF PRE - KINDERGARTENERS ... JOIN IN ON THE FUN❗ IN THE WORDS OF OUR DEAR PRINCIPAL,
DR. LORRAINE SMYTH,
"THE PUFFBALL ASSEMBLY, THIS IS THE CELEBRATION OF OUR PRE KINDERGARTNERS AND THEIR TREASURED HANDMADE WITH LOVE, THEIR PATCHWORK PUFFBALLS❗ THIS IS AN EVENT "BIGGER" THAN THE MACY*S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE❗" 🙌🎉🙌⚽🙌🎉🙌
I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE AND THANK THE FEW MOMS "AND" DADS THAT DID SHOW UP TO THE 10 SESSIONS TO LEARN HOW TO CREATE THEIR PERSONAL, PRECIOUS AND MOST TREASURED KEEPSAKE, THE BELOVED, "PATCHWORK PUFFBALL"... AND NOT ONLY DID SOME OF THOSE FAMILY MEMBERS MAKE A PERSONALIZED PUFFBALL FOR THEIR OWN CHILD, BUT THEY PRESSED ON AND PITCHED IN TO ENSURE "EVERY" CHILD HAS A KEEPSAKE ON ASSEMBLY DAY, OF NOT ONLY THEIR YEARS IN FRANKLIN, BUT THE START OF THEIR "HEWLETT BULLDOG YEARS" ... I'VE ALWAYS REFERRED TO OUR "PRE KER'S" AS OUR "BULLDOG PUPPIES" 🤗🐾🤗
I "MUST" ALSO THANK, TO WHOM I AFFECTIONATELY REFER TO AS MY "PUFFBALL GROUPIES" ... THESE ARE "ALUMNI MOMS", "ALUMNI GRANDMA'S", ONE OF WHOM IS MY "GROUPIE" FOR "10 YEARS NOW" "&" I'M ALSO SOOOO PROUD TO SAY WE HAVE AN "ALUMNI "GR8 GRANDMA" " THAT HAS BEEN COMING TO THE SESSIONS FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW, TO ENSURE "EVERY" CHILD GOES HOME WITH THEIR PRECIOUS, PRIZED AND "VERY" TREASURED PUFFBALL❗MIGHT I ALSO ADD THAT EVEN OUR NASSAU COUNTY POLICE COMMISSIONER, PATRICK RYDER, WAS HONORED WITH A SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE SEPTEMBER 11th, 20th ANNIVERSARY PUFFBALL & WAS DEEPLY TOUCHED TO HAVE ONE OF HIS VERY OWN .... THIS TRADITION HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE THROUGH THE YEARS, SO TREASURED THAT OVER THE YEARS I'VE BEEN TOLD SEVERAL TIMES AFTER THEIR CHILD GRADUATED HEWLETT HIGH SCHOOL, THAT WHEN "THAT" YOUNG ADULT WAS PACKING UP FOR COLLEGE, THEY THREW THEIR TREASURED PUFFBALL INTO THEIR SUITCASES AS A MEMENTO OF HOME & THEIR YEARS IN THE HEWLETT SCHOOLS.... TO ME, THAT KIND OF GESTURE IS WHAT I REFER TO AS A "HEART HUG", MAKING THIS LABOR OF LOVE "ALL" WORTH IT❗ JUST A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY BEHIND THE "4" INSTRUCTORS OF THESE PUFFBALL GEMS... THE VERY 1st INSTRUCTOR WAS THE LATE, JOSIE McKINLEY, ALSO ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE L.I. QUILTERS ASSOCIATION. THE 2nd WAS THE LATE, CLAIRE ANN VINCI, THE 3rd WAS OUR VERY OWN Sylvana Bocci, AND THE 4th, FOR THE PAST 9 YEARS, ME. SO, AS "ALWAYS", I WILL SIGN OFF IN MY USUAL WAY.... UNTIL TOMORROW ....
I "FOREVER" REMAIN IN STITCHES, YOUR INSTRUCTOR,
MARGI STAMILE
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