Packages delivered!

Nana August 16, 2018 0Comments

These are the gifts we sent you and we sent them insured to guarantee delivery. We just got confirmation that you’ve gotten them and we are so glad.

Then I stumbled on these pics from long ago. Yes very long ago …. but look how happy! ? You guys we’re always so happy!

Dear Eli and Guge,

We were sent an email today that the packages with the lunch love stickers and gifts we sent were delivered. ❤️❤️❤️

So happy they got delivered. We hope you love them. I know you’re not able to call – but I bet you were both smiling. Both of you were always was very fond of these lunch love and stickers! I know it’s been rainy there. Aunt KiKi told me about it today . Hope the sun starts shining there soon!

We will go to see Great Grandma Sharyn and Papa Alan this weekend. They too always think of you, and when ever I see Great Grandma Sally she too keeps you both close in her heart .

Tonight we are getting ready to go to sleep and Poppy and I send kisses to you both. Like you always asked. “Send kisses” – so we do every night- hoping they bounce off the moon and back to you. Hope the little stars and night light we sent make you sleep extra cozy and well knowing your missed and loved ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Love ya to the moon and back…

XOXOXOXOXOXO

❤️Forever and Always❤️

❤️Nana and Poppy ❤️?

LOVE LETTERS TO GUILLIANNA AND ELIJAH

Drawings are the BEST!

Nana August 15, 2018 0Comments

YOU ARE THE BEST ARTISTS!

Turns out we keep these ❤️❤️❤️drawings ❤️❤️❤️up and around so we can see them all the time. We loved when you both would surprise us with little notes and pictures you made. Thinking of you both with love and hope you are having a great day. Soon the weekend will be here and you will surely have lots of fun. Wonder what activities you have during the week ? Hopefully you keep on drawing and sending notes to mom and dad like you did in Michigan you’re both amazing artists. All our love today and always ,

XOXOXOXOXOXO

Love always and forever, ❤️Nana and Poppy ❤️?

LOVE LETTERS TO GUILLIANNA AND ELIJAH

Update –

Nana August 14, 2018 0Comments

Hello from the Mitten!

Everyone here sending love to you both. Hope your Tuesday was wonderful. Poppy is working at the office and I am at home working on the computer. I just wanted to take a few moments to tell you I jist got and email saying that your back to school “lunch love” package should be delivered by Thursday ! I am glad that you will have a surprise headed your way to start the school year off nice!

I also sent the gift Kate Hubbard made for Guillianna! (Its the one I sent you a photo postcard of her making ). In a few weeks baby Cole will be a year old and have his first birthday party. How crazy is that a whole year. Fall will be on its way. It’s been so long since we have seen you. Longer than ever in your lives. So I write daily so one day you will know that even if miles between are great our hearts are still full of love for you both.

XOXOXOXOXOXO

❤️Love Nana and Poppy❤️?

LOVE LETTERS TO GUILLIANNA AND ELIJAH

Smiles!

Nana August 13, 2018 0Comments

When we think of you we smile and hope you do the same! I know there is a lot of things that keep you busy and active that makes us so happy. We await the chance to see your happy little faces. Hope you have a great day ! Missing you here in the Mitten but we stay in your hearts ♥️ for sure, where ever you go !

XOXOXOXOXOXO

Love always,

❤️Nana and Poppy?❤️

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

This site was originally written when Guillilanna was born. During her parents deployment and training, we would keep Guillianna in the Mitten. Then Elijah was born and he too was a frequent flyer to the Mitten. They lived with us on and off for nine years. Over the last deployment to Korea and during the past three years where in the kids lived with us for three consecutive years, the internet and this site was not really used to communicate with their parents, FACETIME was quick and easy. Their dad recently got out of the Army and they were relocated. We have not seen or talked with Eli or Guillianna for months. Last we saw them on FaceTime was May 2018. Last we held them December 2017, just after Christmas. Yet the reality is THIS IS NOT ABOUT just OUR BROKEN HEARTS- it is about theirs, ours and our entire family! for these kids who are so small and innocent, they have had a major change in thier lives. It is our hope that the journaling of our time together, and the and the new love letters for them will one day allow them to truly know the depth of love we ALL here in the Mitten have for them.

This site is also a special gift for our daughter, it documents all kinds of small details and images for her to keep, love and enjoy! These memories encompass nine and six years of the lives of her children! A true gift, that one day she may actually appreciate and have gratitude for. She doesn’t think of us as her parents at present, but maybe in the future, she will sit and reflect on all these memories, maybe she will see the love and dedication that she herself was given because of our love for her. If not, this journal, can hopefully one day allow Guillianna and Elijah to see and feel the truth, the love, and they will realize the amazing impact they have had on all of us here in the Mitten, and they will feel the love of all those who they spent their lives with, before embarking on the new journey they have begun. Friends, family alike have shared in nearly a decade of thier lives and all wish for the family to be happy. If it is a parents right and philosophy to “cut people out of your life like a kindergartener cuts out paper snowflakes” and raise their children to feel the same, this new set of love letters are written with the hope that in time the innocent will feel the love they HAVE always had, and the love they can ALWAYS carry it with them.

Packages delivered!

Drawings are the BEST!

YOU ARE THE BEST ARTISTS!

Update –

Smiles!

You Missed

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIJAH❤️

Christmas 2023

❤️Happy Birthday Guillianna ❤️

Happy birthday Elijah !