Good Mail

For a very long time the kids have had a regular squabble in the car over who gets to use the key to get the mail as we drive by our community mailbox. Once in a while, when each the kids is sure that it is their turn to get the mail I settle the argument by telling them that I'll take the turn that day. Now that there is always a possibility of good mail in the mailbox I'm a little more interested in a regular turn with the mail key.

Michelle sent me a package this week which I thought I knew the contents of without even opening it, so I let my little girls open it. Ha! It was a complete surprise to me - I've really never been a very good guesser of gifts on birthdays or Christmas. So here's what she sent me: 2 tins of her lip balm, a lavender pincushion kit from Mt. Vernon, some Belgian dark chocolate, and a very crafty card. I feel so craft humbled looking this card over. Thank you!

Jill sent me some beautiful note cards to feed my new love of stationery. Look how they match my header! They are beautiful and just my style. Jill's note card has a photograph she took at The Louvre on her Paris trip. If I ever go on a cool holiday like that I am copying this idea. I love that she has found a unique way to use and share her holiday pictures.

My visiting teacher was telling me that she has a friend who is on a holiday in England right now, and that this friend was going to bring back the new Harry Potter stamps released by Royal Mail in celebration of the publishing of the final Harry Potter book. Well, I don't have a friend vacationing in England, but luckily for me the stamps were available to order online. I ordered 2 sets of stamps with the U.K./Canadian editions of the covers of the series of Harry Potter books and one set of stamps with the Hogwarts Crest along with the crests of each of the four houses.

It was worth ordering something from Britain just to get an envelope sent by 'Royal Mail'.