putting it in writing

I love receiving letters, cards, even just little notes in the mail. I mean real letters, not bills or advertising pretending to be a personal letter. They're becoming more and more rare - it's far easier, faster and generally cheaper to phone, text or email. But there's a certain pleasure in a handwritten letter or card that an electronic communication just can't compete with.

Knowing how much pleasure I get out of it, I'm going to make an effort to use Australia Post more, especially for thank you notes. We always try to acknowledge birthday and Christmas cards and gifts, but usually with a phone call or email. I'm going to start sending personal notes, and encouraging the children to do the same.

Today's gratitude list:

• more rain! It's been raining most of the day - good soaking rain that we really need, and there should be more tomorrow too :)
• a very quiet day. The husband had to go out for a short while, but the kids and I stayed in and read, played on computers, watched some television, played a new board game (MIL arrived just in time to join in!) ... The sort of quiet, restful day we need to recharge :)
• there were no complaints about dinner. We have a bit of an issue at the moment, where the kids will start complaining about dinner before it even hits the table, but tonight they were fine :) May have had something to do with me not calling it a risotto ... ;)
• did I mention how much we need this rain? :)