...BRIAN...

I don't know why, but I was never one of those kids who had something I carried around with me on a regular basis. My husband tells me he walked around with a pillowcase when he was young, and my oldest daughter carried around a blanket for many years, even sneaking it to school in her backpack in 1st grade at one point, but me - nope. I don't have any recollection of doing so.

However, my little sister had at least two different items she paraded around with. She kept a blanket with her for way too long and I jokingly changed its name from 'blankie with holes in it' to 'holes with a blanket'. Our grandma once persuaded my sister to throw her blanket away when she was 4 or 5 for some money, but as soon as Grandma left, my sister grabbed the blanket back out of the trash.

The other item she carried around with her was a stuffed bear she named, Brian. This bear went everywhere with her and she rarely had him out of her sight. And unbeknownst to me, she's carried that bear around with her for all 30 years of her life.

A couple of months ago she shared a post on Instagram that made one of her friends do such an awesome act of kindness that I knew I needed to make a page about it. Thankfully a designer came up with a kit that worked pretty well for this story.

SUPPLY LIST

TEMPLATE: Healthy Habits (Retired) by Connie Prince KIT: A Teddy Bear Picnic by Memory Mosaic FONTS: 1942 Report (Dates), Sweet Bear (Subtitle) and Bugbear (Journaling)