Simply Sweet!

Babies are...so sweet...so precious...and so very fast-growing!

After a heavy thunderstorm recently, we had to haul a number of things out of our flooded garage.

Things that had been stored for quite some time and I guess, had pretty well been forgotten about.

Amongst the sundry items dragged out to dry out..

was an old suitcase containing many photos and magazines and other paper goods.

Whilst sorting through this suitcase I came across an old writing pad.

It looked familiar and was obviously one that I had been using, for it contained letters that I had written many years ago.

Letters that were meant to be posted to family members but never got sent!!

As I began to read through these forgotten letters,

I felt transported back in time to when my first child was born.

I had been writing to tell my parents and my inlaws the latest news about what amazing things my little son was currently doing.

Such as learning to say his name..

and climbing onto chairs to balance precariously as he reached for something..

keeping me awake night after night by stirring the minute I tried to leave his room..

wanting to brush my hair and recognising the sound of our car when his daddy came home from work.

Little things that are so endearing to a parent and which you think you'll always remember!

It's not that I'd forgotten all this..

but reading those very descriptive letters was like opening a time-capsule.

I laughed - and cried - and laughed again!

And it's got me thinking about how important it is to keep a reminder of the fast-fleeting days of our children's formative years.

These days will never be captured again, no matter how hard we wish for them to return.

And trusting one's memory today, can be a bit of a let-down later on, when you realise that it simply isn't as photographic as you had thought it was!

If only blogging had been around when my boys were small - I would've had a ball compiling posts full of the latest "news" and photos of what Junior was up to, lol!

I think it's great that so many younger mothers are able to make use of this medium for chronicling the family's days.

Although if it was me..I'd be careful to be discreet and probably even make a private blog where I didn't need to worry about strangers lurking around my kiddies' info!

That aside...

I now actually think it's a good idea to deliberately write letters that you are never going to  post!!

You can write them personally to your child, or a relative, or to yourself!

 Letters that describe the emotions you felt, from one milestone to another, as you watched your precious little one growing up.

However you address the reader, it will one day be a source of  interest and joy when somebody reads about your parenting adventures "back in the day"!

Being a very amateur genealogist, I know how much I love to find snippets of information and stories about what was happening to the family in the past.

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I never sent those particular notes on to the grandparents - but don't get me wrong now - they were certainly kept up to date regularly with stories about their grandchildren!

And in spite of feeling a little sheepish about my slack letter posting history..

I am very happy to have re-discovered the old notepad that talks about the funny antics of  my cute one year old!

He's actually coming to visit me in a few weeks time.

We see him about once a year these days, as he lives and works in another state quite far from us.

Hubby and I and son #2 are keen to catch up with him on a long-overdue family holiday.

He's still very cute - 30 years later - and I can't wait to share these letters with him!

After I scan and download a copy and print multiples out for all and sundry to keep somewhere very safe.

Preferably not in a leaky garage, of course lol!

So tell me friends...do you ever write and forget to post, too?

It's not always such a bad thing, you know!  :-)

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blessings..Trish

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