Day 166

I used to write letters to my kids when they were younger.  Someday - they will find them, but since I started blogging I really don't write personal letters to them anymore.  I'm not sure if the blogs became kind of a replacement for the letters, or if I just figured out I didn't really have much wisdom to pass on to them after all.  

As your kids grow, life gets more complicated.  You try to manage your household, but there becomes extra people that have a say in what you're going to do or when you're going to do it.  Time becomes less your own and as a schedule oriented person whose #1 love language is quality time, I personally became more protective of our time.  That might be the other reason I stopped writing.  I was at that point talking to them!  And, writing can be time consuming.  

Part of the fun of the letters is that I know I'll probably be gone when they read them, so it's my way of trying to allow them to still have a piece of me beyond memory.  When they were little I used to worry that if I died before they were grown there would be so many things I would never get to tell them.  

Now, I wonder, are there things that I don't say that I should? Maybe it's time to write a couple letters. :)