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Dear Jack: You’re Always Tinkering with Something

13 years, 7 months.

Dear Jack,

Our family is now halfway through our first week living in our new home in Alabama.

Looking back on the month we lived with Nonna and Papa leading up to this point, an ongoing pattern I saw while we lived with them was your tendency to be “tinkering” with projects; with Papa as your main audience member.

For example, while unpacking from the move from Tennessee, you found one of your remote control cars and decided to start replacing the wheels with a special multipurpose tool you found at a local thrift store here.

After all, Papa is known for rebuilding cars in his shop. I feel a feeling you will carry on the tradition in our family!

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: Constant Access to Your Cousin Now

8 years, 2 months.

Dear Holly,

For your entire life, you were only able to see your cousin Darla once every month or two, based on us driving to Alabama from Tennessee.

Now that we have moved to Alabama and live on the same street as her, you seem to be hanging out with her every chance you get.

Not only that, the two of you talk to each other every day on an app from JusTalk. So while Mommy and I are working from home, I can hear you in your bedroom catching up with Darla each morning.

You are loving our move here!

Love,

Daddy

 

 

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Dear Holly: Your Fancy Cleaning Shoes

8 years, 2 months.

Dear Holly,

As our family is apparently just days away from finally moving into our house in Alabama that we have been renovating since March, you have been finding ways to help us prepare for the move.

That includes tidying up our current living space at Nonna and Papa’s house.

Nonna sent me a picture of you cleaning the floors in one of the rooms. I suppose you were being quite thoughtful and considerate, as you apparently invented some special shoes out of Ziploc bags; to prevent your feet from getting the floor dirty again.

Thank you for doing your part!

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: Learning Secret Family Recipes from Nonna

8 years, 1 months.

Dear Holly,

One of the reasons we moved here to Alabama was to make more memories with family, as opposed to just waiting for the holidays or the rushed weekends trips from Nashville to see them.

This week, I loved being able to observe Nonna teaching you her secret family recipes, as she taught you the way her Mexican side of the family made empanadas and the way her Italian side of the family made calzones.

You were all in! You loved being able to help Nonna help cook dinner for us.

It is moments like this that say so much about our new life here in Alabama.

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: This Week at VBS

8 years, 1 month.

Dear Holly,

If this week at Vacation Bible School at First Baptist Church in Fort Payne is any indication of what it will be like when you start at your new school in August, then I know you are definitely going to love it!

It certainly helps that you can to hang out with your cousin Darla and your new friend Charlee, who are also in your grade.

Where you’ve grown up in Tennessee, Vacation Bible School wasn’t as accessible as it is here in a smaller town in Alabama. I’m so glad you are getting to experience it this year!

Love,

Daddy