I'm very excited about this, because as a child I had pen pals, and loved writing and receiving letters. In this digital age, everything is text message, social media or email; and the art of writing has been lost. Knowing that my son gets very excited when he checks the mailbox and sees his name on an envelope or package gives me a glimpse of hope, that maybe just maybe as he gets older he will continue to write his own letters! He has a new friend, a pen pal AJ so that's a start!
This is AJ's letter:
His letter to AJ:
There's one sentence that filled my heart with joy, when my son was telling me what to write, he said: "AJ, I promise you're going to be my pen pal, and we're going to friends."