Like several loving dad or mum, Kayla Cameron from Wellington, P.E.I., wished her daughter, Abbygail, to really feel particular on her eighth birthday.
“She’s a really brilliant, social eight-year-old. She loves being exterior and being round folks. She enjoys horseback driving, which we by no means thought can be one thing she would need to do as a result of she was all the time scared of huge animals,” Cameron stated.
Two weeks in the past, Cameron reached out to Prince Edward Islanders on a Fb group, asking for birthday playing cards to be despatched to her daughter. She did so as a result of Abbygail, who has cerebral palsy, is all the time excited to obtain mail.
“Daily she asks me if we’ve mail and she or he will get proper excited after we do, whether or not it is for her, if it is a invoice or something in any respect,” Cameron stated.
“I believed possibly due to COVID and all the things being type of locked down and never getting out an excessive amount of, I believed possibly she want to get quite a lot of playing cards.”
To their shock, they acquired over 250 playing cards on her birthday.
“She was excited and yelling how she was so excited,” Cameron stated about her daughter’s response.
“We began going by the playing cards and we discovered some which are all the best way from the States, not realizing if we all know anyone from the states, however realizing that the phrase acquired that far and lots of people have been simply desirous to ship her a card to brighten her day.”
Cameron stated she and her daughter will possible make a scrapbook with the playing cards they obtained.
“Or put all of them in a field and attempt to maintain all of them divided and completely different provinces,” she stated.
“There’s a lot from Alberta and Ontario and Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and naturally, P.E.I.”
Cameron thanks all of the Islanders and non-Islanders who despatched playing cards to make her daughter’s birthday memorable.
“It was very nice of everyone and we’re simply so grateful that individuals need to try this for her.”
She encourages different dad and mom to make social media name outs for birthday playing cards.
“If that is one thing that may make your kid’s day, it might be an excellent concept to do it as a result of it is one thing really easy.”
