Princess Savannah

She polished and adjusted her tiara and said confidently, “These people only think they are in charge,” and the fearless girl entered the world in grand style.  Yes, we have grandchild number four and granddaughter number two.  No, she wasn’t supposed to be here for five more weeks but little ones love to play embarrassing jokes on doctors with half the alphabet after their name, not to mention mommy and daddy.

Lake outings for adults celebrating the birth of a nation mean nothing to self-coronated queens-in-waiting.  Their birth, after all is far more important than the birthday of country which has already had more over the top celebrations than most.  At least that’s the way a princess sees it!

One can almost hear her girlish giggles as she waits for mommy to get as far away from the hospital as she is allowed to go at this point in what we scientifically refer to almost academically as the gestation period.  She has mischief dancing in her eyes hidden from view by the comfortable blanket mommy wraps her tightly in as she plots to announce her arrival at the moment least expected.  With the blaring festival trumpets of the legendary water break her audience is summoned, her preoccupied attendants lay down their menial priorities, the finest medical resources are beckoned to her side, a speedy chariot whisks her away magically to the coronation room and the royal family assembles to do her bidding.  This is her day and that she intends to make most clear.

Almost three decades ago the world stopped (as well it should) for the regal entrance of another princess.  Now the princess cradles another princess and the gleaming tiara upon her rosy brow says, “I rule the world don’t you know?”

If you think I gush as if trying to unseat Bill Shakespeare from his preeminent perch as the writer of all things magical and mysterious or if you think this piece constitutes the most overstated accolades in literary history matters not to me because fantasy is only fantasy to others.  To those living in the fantasy it is law and gospel.  For me, she is an ever-regal princess and she already rules my heart.

Welcome Princess Savannah Elizabeth Byrnside your Court awaits you.