The finder took the time to write us a note:
"I found this in the DAISIES book. I love this painting so much.
from
Gemma Chamberlain"
Thank you, Gemma!
Postcards. Libraries. Mail. Art. Books. Travel. Stories. People.
The finder took the time to write us a note:
"I found this in the DAISIES book. I love this painting so much.
from
Gemma Chamberlain"
Thank you, Gemma!
We were surprised this week by a pre-pandemic postcard coming back home! It's a little disappointing that there was no note, because time before the pandemic seems like so long ago. This vacation was one that my husband booked while I was working the polls on election day. He found an unexpected full week opening on a vacation home fewer than 2 weeks away, and booked it as a surprise! It was awesome.
Hello.
We're back.
Maybe not consistently. Life changes. We don't have the chances for travel we used to, and the little girl who started it all grew up and became a Marine and moved far away and got married.
But there are the little boys. Who aren't little any more, really--they're both taller than me now and about to go on the adventure of high school. But they wanted to make postcards for our upcoming vacation, so we did...and I thought maybe it was time to put some that we've received up here.
This one returned to us in 2021, when we were still kind of pandemicky feeling, though mail doesn't worry us. I wish I were more organized and got all of them up here when they arrived, so that the person who sent each one back would have a better chance of seeing it. Paul, the rescuer of Crab and Shadow, has probably forgotten this page exists, which is a shame, because he wrote us a very cool note on the back. Here's the card:
So many reasons I haven't kept up.
First... you may have noticed the global pandemic. Suddenly my boys are home all the time, and I'm the teachers aide. They get bored because they can't hang with their friends, and I'm the Activities Director. Plus, no travel, so no new libraries.
But thanks to Nathan, who is six years old (which is the age the Marine was when we started this game), this came back today. Our vacation to Park City seems like a lifetime ago!