Christopher, Singer AND Writer!

 

 

Thanks for all of your nice comments about Christopher's singing! He truly is talented in many areas. I found this newsletter from C.'s first grade class and I wanted to show you what C. wrote. (Each month the class had a featured author.)  Christopher always loved books and he still does!  I hope we got him some Eric Carle books for his birthday that year. Our brilliant son!  He has always been a very gifted writer.  In his college journalism class, just last month he got the highest grade on an assignment and he was given the "It Was A Dark And Stormy Night" Award.  This was done in a humorous, tongue-in-cheek kind of way, but C. was pleased to receive it since he has always loved those words.  We have a slip of paper with those same words in his first grade handwriting that stayed on my fridge for many years... 

 

Also, may I show you something else?  I have a letter that C. wrote the following year, a letter that he wrote to Santa Claus.  Nothing startling about that, children write to Santa every year.  However, since Christopher wrote his return address underneath "To Santa Claus, North Pole", it was returned to us within a few days after he posted it.  I placed it inside my "Southern Living Christmas Book".  So, since 1997, I have held on to this letter and I HAVE NEVER OPENED IT.  Christopher says that since fifteen years have passed, then he thinks he will open it this year. (He can't remember at all what he wrote, so it will be as much as a surprise for him as it will be for us.) So...look out for a post about this and I will let you in on the letter to Santa from 1997! (See, and you thought I couldn't be exciting!) That is, if Christopher will allow me to have it on my blog! United States Mail is private property!