Love Letters

... just for fun

I’ve yet to read a greeting card that sounds better that what my husband can scrawl in his messy handwriting on a piece of paper. Not a single one I’ve come across speaks to us and what we know to be true and how it feels to be married to one another compared to the beautiful poetry and love filled notes that I have received through the years.

For that reason and the fact that Tyler hates buying greeting cards, we have a new rule when it comes to celebrations of love in our home. All cards for the occasion will be handmade - even if it’s just written on the back of our electric bill. The art of the hand-written love letter seems to be dying out in our technology age and so it’s our small way of trying to keep it alive.

In the afternoon, we set to work writing our love letters.

Aliyah and I danced around the living room to Stevie Nicks while we waited for Tyler to finish his in the other room.

We’re saving all of them in a box as a tangible part of our history together.

Tyler and I have also decided to make our wedding anniversary an official family holiday. We’ve promised that we will always take the day off from work/school to do something fun together with our children. We feel it’s really important to instill in our family that being married takes hard work and commitment but it’s also something that should be celebrated. We hope our children learn to look forward to April 8th each year in the same way they might anticipate a birthday or vacation.