Mailbox Moments Mondays - Week #3

I'm participating in a link party hosted by Mailbox Moments. Every Monday for four weeks they will provide a prompt to inspire bloggers to share how they keep in touch with others. Today's prompt was: Send someone a handmade item. The challenge here is you can't spend any money on the item. You must make something with things that you already have at home. The only cost should be to mail the item. Express appreciation to the person and maybe include a little note of love. Take pictures of the item and share the post on your blog on 8/22/11.

I decided to make some of these strawberry hats for two babies born into our circle of friends recently. Coincidentally I met these two moms when I was pregnant with my first child, the same one that started Kindergarten today. We joined the same pregnancy online club and have remained friends to this day. Both of these moms had baby girls while I was in Spain this summer so I decided to send them a little something that their precious baby girls can wear when it gets chilly in a couple of months. I'll include a note to each of them thanking them for being such wonderful friends and wishing them the best of luck with their new bundle of joy.

Mailbox Moments Mondays - Week #2

I'm participating in a link party hosted by Mailbox Moments. Every Monday for four weeks they will provide a prompt to inspire bloggers to share how they keep in touch with others. The prompt for this week was: Write someone a back-to-school letter wishing them good luck. Give them some advice and well wishes.

I decided to write a letter to my daughter who is starting Kindergarten next week. This morning as we entered her new new school for some testing I got very emotional thinking that in a short week she will be a student there. I don't even need to close my eyes to imagine her as a tiny newborn swaddled in her cradle next to my bed, and now she's starting Kindergarten. *sniff*

I wrote her a letter telling her how I feel about this moment, and also letting her know how proud I am of the little girl she is today. Amongst many things I told her that I hope she will always continue to love learning and that I hope she never stops asking questions about the world around her. I put the letter inside her new "School Years" scrapbook that appropriately arrived today. Thanks for reading, I'm off to grab another tissue.

Mailbox Moments Mondays - Week #1

I'm participating in a new link party hosted by Mailbox Moments. Every Monday for four weeks they will provide a prompt to inspire bloggers to share how they keep in touch with others. This is a perfect project for me as I love to keep in touch with friends and family, especially using regular snail mail. Today's prompt was: write a long over-due letter to a friend telling them about a favorite memory.


I decided to write a letter to my BFF. We met in 5th when my family moved to a new country and someone we knew told us about a family that lived there that would help us out. Moving in 5th grade is far from ideal but having someone to show me the ropes was great. Bea and I quickly became best friends and my family all but adopted her as she spent many a weekend at our house. We have many memories together... from going through middle school and high school to her being a part of my wedding. I'll never forget the day I called her 6 years ago to ask her if she would be my daughter's godmother.


The content of the letter I wrote her will remain between us, but as you can see I included a few other goodies. She has a love for stationary so I sent her a notepad with her initial and I also made her a key chain. Nothing fancy but I hope these things included with my letter make her smile.

I chose this picture of us because it brings back great memories. Bea is the one in the middle, I am on the right. This was taken the summer before we started college. A couple of weeks before I met the man (boy at that time!) that I would marry. I say this because recently Bea showed me a letter I sent her from college telling her I met someone that I thought was the one. I love that she still has that letter!

Thank you Mailbox Moments for providing this great idea... I can't wait to write more letters in the upcoming weeks.