the spreadsheet

So, it is easier to plan than to do. But if you plan things really well, it can really facilitate the doing. So we opened up a spreadsheet and made a list of people for the rows and months for the columns. Then we went down the list and made a sort of schedule for when we would write so and so. Now, each week we can refer to our spreadsheet and just write to those people.

Also to facilitate our writing we bought some envelopes and stamps. We really never have a shortage of paper around. If you get a piece of "scratch paper", which is just printed sheets of paper that aren't of any use but have a nice blank backside, and it has a letter on the back--that's our way of saying we love you, and here we are showing it in part by reusing paper that would otherwise be trash. Unfortunately are stamps aren't here yet (we bought them online), so some of you may have already received envelopes with a nice official postmark on them.

The kids like drawing pictures or coloring, so that part is easy.

So we just need to write letters, stuff the goods in the envelopes, address the envelopes, and send them off!