Birthday Letters
My daughter is turning four in THREE WEEKS. It might as well be tomorrow, she can hardly contain herself.
In four years, I’ve managed to half-finish a baby book and categorize the roughly thirty books I SHOULD be ordering from Shutterfly in my head. In other words, I’m not doing a very good job keeping up on the “sentimental” side of parenting.
I have a birthday tradition though for both of my kids that makes me feel slightly less guilty about my lack of a photo book from Halloween 2011. Right around each of their birthdays I sit down and write them a letter. I tell them what they are like, funny stories about what they have done, how important they are to our family and how much we love them. And then I seal it up, write their name on it with the number they are turning next to it, and toss them in the back of the unfinished baby book.
It’s a little time capsule for their future, and I can’t wait for them to call me one day after they’ve finished reading them.
Birthdays!
Tags: birthday celebrations, birthday letters, birthday time capsule, kid traditions, time capsule
Love this idea! Thanks! I started a tradition (unintentionally, too)…I create a 5 year book for their 5th birthday. (I’m already 3 months behind! lol). Basically, I give 4 pages per year and cram as many picture on a page that remind me of them. Not a lot of them are big, but they hold a lot of memories. My oldest is almost 7 and I find him looking at his book often. He reminds me weekly that I haven’t finished his sister’s book! lol
You’re such a great mommy
. I love the idea of writing a letter to your child. I’m stealing that idea 