General Discussion & Chat: what did you get in the childrens exchange, 1 by Gemila

Gemila wrote:
I have to apologize to Patty & Linda. It seems I sent each the others personalized ornament and of course created some confusion & laughter on Patty's part. I'll have to send you both postage $$ & each others address so that you can mail them to each other. Will this work?? Even after all that checking and double checking I managed to goof things up. Sorry!

I happened to come across a website (by accident) that for $10.00 ea. would have a letter from Santa mailed to a child. I then did a search & found lots of sites that did the same thing. Some letters were better looking than others but most sold for 10 and only a couple sold for $5 ea. It then hit me that in years past I had read an article that said that for Valentine's Day, if you mailed your letter (w/ proper postage on it) in a sealed envelope to the postmaster in Valentine, IN., they at the PO would handstamp it with their official stamp and mail it off to the person who's name was on the address. Well, I started writting letters left & right. I did some for my son's classmates too. I put stamps on them, sealed them in an envelope & mailed them to the Postmaster in North Pole, AK on Dec. 6. I also included a quick note so the Postmaster would know my intentions & gave him/her thanks. I then started getting worried that they could arrive late but was amazed that they arrived so quickly! Whew! I'm sorry I didn't send one to Tory & Nicholas too. I shouldn've known they would feel left out.

BTW, Laura recieved her ornament from Nicholas. She loved it and quickly hung it on the tree.

Eric also received his reindeer & laminated ornament from Zeth (?) Bolin. He said it was cool! I'll post pictures of these as soon as I can. I've been a bit busy w/ the kids school & just got back from their school program. Have to unload all the photos from the dig. camera so I can take pictures of these. THANKS!!!!

(Eric is the boy in front row (red sweater), Laura is the second angel from the right)