10/31

A  few years ago my sister EJ studied abroad in Spain for the summer. Before she left I bought her a bunch of different greeting cards, wrote inside each one, and then wrote a date on each envelope. I told her she couldn’t open up the card until the date written on the outside of the envelope. I spread out the dates so she would have a card to open once a week or every other week while she was away in case she ever got homesick or needed something to cheer her up! 

A few years after Spain EJ moved to Costa Rica for a year, so I sent her with another stack of cards with dates on the envelopes!

As Jeremy and I were leaving for the Airport to go to Australia my mom handed us a stack of cards for each of us with dates on the envelopes. We opened our first cards on the plane but had to wait to open the rest.  

We were all sitting around on October 31 discussing how strange it is that they don’t celebrate Halloween in Australia when I remembered we had cards we were allowed to open on 10/31!   

It definitely brightened my day to get to open a card from my mom! 

Looking forward to opening the rest over the next few months….

Thanks mama, I love you!