My sister Kiki (we’re two years apart) writes the best letters. She has beautiful penmanship and covers the letters in doodles like the grammar fairy (our inside joke- he’s a man in a tutu) and her attempts at cooking and she just lets me know how it really is. We never really wrote letters before. I’m not going to say that I’m happy that we live far away and now we have to write letters- but I do enjoy being pleasently surprised by an envelope addressed to “Number 1” from “2, 3, and 4”.
Obviously the contents of the letters are quite personal (I don’t think she’d want me posting them on the internet) so the sample I have is a recipe she’s given me that I’m excited to try tomorrow. (We’re exchanging recipes because we’re both getting into cooking.) To be honest I always thought she would be a great cook. That probably sounds ridiculous but it’s true. And I can’t elaborate anymore because I’m not allowed to write about what I’ve written in a letter until AFTER it’s been received.
(The ice cream truck is driving by. I think of her every time.)
So here’s her beautiful penmanship and some closeups of the doodles she sent me.
For my reply I practiced doodling foxes for about twenty minutes before I gave up and just went with it. No, I didn’t scan any of those because I FAIL.
(In her next letter she’ll probably write something snarky about how she won’t draw me any more pictures because I plastered them all over the internet. But I can’t help it. I like them. I want to remember. So NYAH.)
5 Comments
Dani
6 Jul 2009 at 9:56 amI love her drawings! I really wish I had a sister and someone to write to like that on a regular basis. I write my best friend letters and send her post cards every now and then (she lived in Oklahoma), but I never get anything back. I had a few pen pals a few years ago, and one of them used to doodle all over everything, too, as did I, but the whole wedding and college thing got in the way and we’ve lost touch. Maybe I should dig out their old letters and try to send them something. I do miss personalized mail, rather than just junk and bills. One of my favorite things in the world is getting a letter from someone. I don’t know what it is about it that just makes my day. =]
little sister
4 Jul 2009 at 6:59 pmI love how the close up of Toby has that sad-face emoticon just hanging there, alone and context-less.
:C
Alyssa
3 Jul 2009 at 12:09 pmThose are lovely! And wow, she does have the most beautiful penmanship. Moving all over the world was great for my friend and I–for the first couple years we wrote each other often, but now my letters usually aren’t answered (which I cite to their being so busy with school). I hope you two keeps these up for a long time; they’ll make such wonderful mementos!
Cri
2 Jul 2009 at 9:48 pm<3!
i always wished to have this sort of sisterhood with my own sister. my heart is bursting that you do!
Bronwyn
2 Jul 2009 at 8:39 pm😀
I remember writing my sister at camp. At the time, the most important thing was the growth of her Tamagotchi which I was caring for. So I’d draw her little Tamagotchi.