Dear
Kieran,
How
are you doing today? I am doing fine, though I miss you like crazy!
I
want to begin by letting you know that I was as disappointed as you were about
not getting together Friday afternoon. I’d also like you to know that I wanted
to get together and did not cancel our visit. I actually was driving to the
center when I received the call that our visit had been cancelled. I have asked
the center to set up a makeup visit, but whether or not we are able to do that
is entirely up to the person who cancelled this visit. I love you very much and
never would cancel or be late for one of our visits except in the direst of
emergencies. If I were allowed to, I would see and talk to you every day.
In
addition, I want you to know that your emails to me continue not to be sent. As
of this writing, 31 days have passed since your last email was sent to me. That
is very unfortunate, as I am now not aware of what you are doing even though I
would like to know so we can talk about those things (and perhaps I even can
participate in them in some way). I have never missed sending my weekly letter
to you in the nearly 11 months since I have been allowed to write to you, and I
never will miss a letter except in the direst of emergencies.
Hopefully
we will get to see one another again very soon for our make-up visit, and
hopefully I will begin receiving your emails during the next day or so. We are
next scheduled to meet on Friday, Aug. 23, but there is no reason that we
cannot have a makeup visit before then. I always will change my schedule to be
there for you and to see you.
You
must be getting very excited about a couple of big events that are coming up!
First,
the Minnesota State Fair starts in just 12 days, on Aug. 22. It is a lot like
the Los Angeles County Fair we used to go to in California, but I’d say the Minnesota
State Fair is a wee bit better. When I was a little boy your age, I remember
seeing the fair on television. One of the cool carnival rides the TV always
showed was a big yellow slide, like what we used to go down on gunny sacks at
Legoland and at the Poppy Festival in Lancaster. Hopefully the slide will be
there again this year, and you’ll get to go down it!
The
other big event is that you’re about to start first grade! I don’t remember
much about my first day in first grade except that my friend Ron and I had to
go through different doors into the school than we did during kindergarten. The
kindergarten room was in a different section of the school than the first through
sixth grade classrooms! My first grade teacher’s name was Mrs. Rhiel. Do you yet
know the name of your first grade teacher? What day do you start school? Do you
know which of your friends will be coming back to school with you this year?
I
hope that you’ve been having a great summer and have gotten to go to lots of
places in the Twin Cities. There are many fun things for kids to do in
Minneapolis-St. Paul, from carnivals to museums and from sports to bookstores. I
miss and love you very much and look forward to seeing you at our makeup visit!
Love,
Rob
