Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday: Real Pal

On our Thanksgiving trip to Oklahoma City this past week, I was a schemer. Chipette’s pen pal lives in Oklahoma and I mentioned to pen pal’s mother that we would be in Oklahoma during Thanksgiving. We decided to surprise the girls by letting them meet in person on Thanksgiving Day at a local park, and then eating Thanksgiving dinner together since neither family had Thanksgiving plans.

To put it mildly, the girls were instant real life friends with such similar personalities and interests it was surely a God thing that they were paired up as pen pals.

Friends within seconds of meeting!

Do you ever look at your kids and wonder how you made something so beautiful?

Arm in arm and step in step to the duck pond.

Monkey's favorite part of the day!

Magpie making friends with the ducks.

Sets of sisters

Surprises are wonderful when they result in the meeting of pen pals, who become real pals, in the tree house,

Chelli

10 comments:

  1. Yea!! What a fun post! I am so glad that we planned this meeting and they hit it off so quickly! Now they will have so much more to write about.

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    1. Or maybe one day, they'll be roommates in college!

      We had a blast. Thanks so much for making it happen!

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  2. How cool! I really need to get started on the whole penpal thing. You've inspired me!

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    1. I waited until Chipette was in second grade to sign her up because I wanted to make sure she had quite a bit of spelling and punctuation under her belt so I didn't have to spell every. single. word.

      Now Magpie is begging for a pen pal, but she's not anywhere close to being ready for the writing involved, so I'm trying to hold her off until second grade as well, but it's not working! :)

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  3. That is so great!! She will have a friend for life

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    1. It's pretty awesome! Her pen pal is a wonderful girl with a great family.

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  4. Oh how fun! I remember going to visit my pen-pal when I was 13. It was great. We wrote until we both got married. I still adore her.

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    1. I think that would be so cool. What a neat relationship to have for so long!

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