New Years Eve is our anniversary! But it’s not my favorite time to get out on the road, so my husband and I usually enjoy a quiet dinner at home and go out another night. ❤️
For our 29th this year, I pulled down our box of letters from years ago. Remember those? We wrote them when we were courting and engaged. I was dancing with a ballet company out of Mississippi and he was in college in New Orleans. Back and forth we sent mail from the first day we met, until 7 days before we married!
I traveled all over the US. And he drove to see me when I came back home. The distance nearly killed us, but writing about our days helped… interspersed with the occasional phone call. Long distance cost money! These were our life-lines. We cards and postcards every few days, waiting for a response as soon as it was off in the mail. Long before any cell phone – texting, snapchat, instagram, facebook. A photo had to be sent by mail! There wasn’t even an answering machine or voicemail.
That must be hard to comprehend.
Yet, our letters today are precious, funny snatches of that special time. Saved forever in envelopes with postage and date-stamp. Our actual handwriting (misspellings and all… only in mine) express longing to see each other and excitement about our future. We even made our own “emojies” in the margins 😉
How fun to retrace our story and visit the getting to know one another days before marriage ❤️ Life seemed a bit more simple; a lot less public back then. How I hope our kids will follow this example and write love letters to their sweethearts. Then someday they too can snuggle up on an anniversary and take a little trip down Memory Lane.
ForGlorySake!– Anna
