P.E.I. grandmother keeps snowball in her freezer for more than a decade
It isn’t usually folks wish to cling onto winter, however a Summerside, P.E.I., lady has saved a bit of it in her freezer for over a decade: a snowball in a Ziploc bag.
The snowball is not simply any outdated ball of ice, nevertheless, it was a present from her granddaughter 11 years in the past.
“It is very particular,” says Mae Arsenault.
“Understanding that they consider you sufficient to convey you one thing, it would not matter what it’s, however a snowball is nice for me.”
Stored rigorously for years
Her granddaughter, Alecia Arsenault, is 16 years outdated now and had forgotten concerning the present till lately when the pair stumbled upon an outdated picture of five-year-old Alecia presenting it to her.
At that time, obscure recollections of constructing a snowball weeks forward of her grandmother’s birthday, and preserving it for her till the top of Could, began to return again to her.
“I am unsure what was occurring in my five-year-old thoughts that I made a decision {that a} snowball can be an ideal present,” Alecia mentioned.
She could not consider it when her grandmother mentioned the exact same snowball was nonetheless within the freezer.
“I used to be like ‘Are you kidding me?’ So we received as much as the freezer and went to go search for it and certain sufficient it was there,” she mentioned.
“I used to be like ‘Oh my goodness,’ 11 years that is been there.”
‘I do know she’s pondering of me’
Mae Arsenault moved a pair instances since Alecia first gave her the present and nobody within the household even knew she had saved it — and that she has been quietly treasuring it each time she opens her freezer door — for the previous 11 years.
“I all the time consider it,” Mae mentioned.
“I attempt to put it within the again so it will not be crushed, however I do know it is all the time there.”
Alecia jokes that she is not certain she’d have held onto the present.
“If it have been me and a few baby gave me a snowball I might most likely simply throw it again exterior when the child left,” she laughed. “I simply by no means thought that will be one thing that she would hold.”
“It makes me actually comfortable as a result of I do know that she’s pondering of me and has that there, it is like part of me is right here together with her on a regular basis. It is actually cute, I find it irresistible a lot.”
For Mae, it is not nearly remembering the present.
The snowball is a logo of her rising granddaughter’s childhood years.
And she or he says so long as she’s dwelling the snowball can be in her freezer.
