I Got Love For You

Santa brought a new computer to my nieces so Aunt Stacy set them up on gmail accounts and Skype and we've all been getting some nice email love from them.

Ellie's tend to be short though to the point: "Hi Laura, I love you, Ellie." Connor has emailed to coordinate a sleepover back in Brooklyn and asked what sport I want to focus on first for my sports stats clinic with him. (He's a Jets fan - and very excited about Saturday's win - suggested football). Katy informed me last night I need to download Skype today so we can all talk and see one another when we're not together, as they did on Sunday with their cousins who had left for Utah.

I was thinking about how at work we have agency wide meetings to discuss reducing the volume of email that comes in and proper email etiquette, and how we all secretly don't love the mass email forwards, jokes and chain letters. Different reality when you're 7 or 9 years old... Some of my favorite emails I've saved have come from them, or my father and my Aunt Ruth (both blog subscribers too). And what a 'problem' to have when people are taking the time to stay in touch with you, to make the miles between you feel like much less.

I'm flying out today, and am sad to leave everyone, though had created this video for my nieces and their cousins for Christmas. Ellie has played it several times already, volume turned up high. I suspect I'll be doing the same when I'm away too.