Napkin Notes

Each day Emily takes her lunch to school, I stick a napkin in her lunch box. (For some reason, they call them lunch kits here. Must be a Southern thing?) But before I put the napkin in, I write a little note to her on it.

I've been doing this since she started all day school - in kindergarten.

She always likes reading her notes.

A month or so ago, Emily told me she wished she could write me a note each day.

I said something like, "Oh, that would be nice." and didn't think about it again.

She mentioned it a few more times.

Finally, a pen found its way into her lunch kit.

Now, every day she comes home and is excited to show me what she wrote on the back of the napkin.

Sometimes she writes about her day (up to lunch time), or writes in response to something I wrote on the napkin. (For picture day my note reminded her to smile big, and she wrote back saying that she did and they took two pictures.)

It's fun to see what she comes up with.

Here's a note I got last Friday.



And here's the note I got yesterday (Monday).

I started laughing when I read this one. She said her teacher sings it every Monday. :) (And Emily was pretty pleased with herself for remembering the words and being so funny.)

**Emily told me yesterday that her friend has started borrowing the pen at lunch to write to her mother. :)