Hi Kieran,
How are you today? I hope you’re doing well. I’d doing fine,
though I miss you very much.
How is school going? I did not receive your email to me last
week, so I did not get to hear from you how you are doing in kindergarten. Please
have your mother resend the email to me so I can catch up on your schooling.
Tomorrow (Sunday, March 17), you will have to make sure you
wear green. Why? Because it’s St. Patrick’s Day! It is a very important day for
people who are Irish. Though we’re not Irish, we still celebrate the holiday
out of respect to those who are and because it’s a lot of fun!
Do you get spring break at your school? The school where
your cousins Rebekah and Bryan go has spring break in just another week. During
spring break, they get the whole week off from school! Schools often have
spring break so that parents can take their children on vacation, and then the
kids don’t have to miss any school.
If you could go on vacation, where would you go? Some people
travel to lots of fun places like Disneyworld in Florida (We used to go to
Disneyland in California.). Other families travel to scenic or historical
places where they can enjoy nature or learn about our past. Places like that
include a national park, such as the Grand Canyon in Arizona, or Washington,
D.C., our nation’s capital. Other families don’t travel at all but spend their
vacation in their own house, enjoying their time together playing games and
watching movies and maybe going to fun places that are nearby, like a mall.
After St. Patrick’s Day and spring break comes Easter on
March 31. Do you have big plans for Easter, like going to an egg hunt or maybe
out to eat for Easter dinner? I am going to Grandma and Grandpa Bignell’s for
Easter. Your Uncle Chris, Aunt Suzie, cousins Bryan and Rebekah, Aunt Sandy and
Uncle Mark all will be there. We are having ham and prime rib for dinner. All of
us wish you could be there with us for Easter sinenr.
There sure is a lot of snow on the ground – much more than
we had in California! Do you like playing in the snow? Have you made a snowman
or snow angels yet? Have you gone sledding? When I was a little boy your age, I
always liked to go sledding down snow-covered hills and then have hot chocolate
afterward. You might remember that we went up into the mountains near our house
in Lancaster and went sledding and had hot chocolate afterward – it was the
first time you ever had hot chocolate, and you loved it! You had so much fun
going up and down and down the hills and drank so much hot chocolate that you
slept the whole drive back to our house.
Once the snow starts to melt in a couple of weeks, the wind
will start to pick up as spring arrives. That makes for great kite-flying
weather. Would you like to fly a kite?
Well, that is all for now. I love and miss you very much and
can’t wait to see you again on March 29!
Love,
Dad
