Annabelle has mail!

 

We arrived home today to find a letter from Annabelle’s pen pal. Miss Emma has arrived in California and sent a letter as soon as she crossed the state line. Annabelle was over the moon when she opened her letter. She was reading and laughing and nearly crying she was so, so happy. This friendship makes my heart happy and I love their need to keep in touch. With emails (excuse me Darron, gmails), text, facebook, all the media out there….there is still nothing better than receiving a handwritten letter!

 

Annabelle asked me what she would do with all her letters from Emma. I told her we would get her a special pen pal box like we gave to Emma and she could keep them there. She asked if she could save them forever and when she got married Emma could be in her wedding and they could read them together. Then they could have daughters and read them to their daughters and then their daughters could be pen pals too. I told her that sounded like a lovely idea (and I was thinking “holy crap, that’s super sweet. you’re killing me, smalls!).