Written words

they have always been important to me.

i wrote letters growing up, too two friends that i saw on a weekly basis.

There was just something special about written words and it was great to get mail when you were younger.

i made friends at the summer camp i went to and we occasionally wrote letters to one another, until we saw each other again at camp the next summer.

I'm sure there were notes passed in jr. high but i remember it way more in high school.

Email happened around then and while it was no where near as wonderful as a hand written letter/note it worked too.

Now i am teaching my daughter about handwritten letters and how special they are. 

my mom brought me a wooden box, from my childhood home, a few months ago. it is a box that held all kinds of treasures over the years and came from my best friend growing up.

we have written numerous letters over the last 28 years.

We've lived in the same state for 13 of those years.

now she has a daughter and we have our girls writing to one another.

they have only met each another once.

i gave that little box to my daughter and put some of her letters from "D" in there.

i asked her where her current letter from "D" was and she said, "I put it in the box mom."

i dream of the day when we are once again living in the same state.

until then......

we have written words and occasional phone calls.