Love Letters

My 11 year old just brought this art project home, I love it! 

Happy Valentines Day!

I turned on the Today Show this morning to catch a weather report and instead caught a few minutes of an interview with Jenna Bush- (forgot her married name), about love letters her Grandfather President Bush and his wife Barbara Bush had written to each other through the years.  

They talked about how love letters are a dying art, and with all the additions of technology to today's world-emails, texts, skype, IM's, etc...  nobody sits down to hand write a letter expressing their love and appreciation anymore.  

This triggered a flood of warm memories for me.  I have two shoeboxes full of letters my husband and I wrote to each other while he served his mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for two years, and then while I was away at college.  I treasure them.  I tried to quickly locate the box they're in-but it's waaaay back in the storage room, so no pictures.  They are a very real timeline of our relationship, how we grew from friends to best friends and how we fell in love.  I love that we wrote every week, and that I have them all.  Someday our children will read them and know we were once two young kids in love.  They will witness how we grew and matured and became the people who are their parents.

I have written a few more through the years, but not nearly enough.  Thinking this over made me desire to write more, the legacy of a hand written testament of your love for your spouse or child is unmatched.  Writing an email is nice, a text that says I Love You is fun,  but a handwritten note expressing our heart is more, it's somehow more real, and more permanent.  

I'm going to go write my husband of 17 years a Love Letter, and maybe my kids too!  I hope you will too.