Write to Carter, Please

Carter’s first day at camp and I was looking forward to making some progress on my giant-never-ending-been-on-the-list-for-years house projects.  You know the kind of things you don’t want to do, but you really want done, like cleaning out the junk drawer or organizing old pictures.  Thanks to my opening my big mouth in the winter and volunteering to research, write and produce ten skits for church this summer I spent the majority of the day writing.

This upcoming Sunday’s skit, which is a take off on “It’s a Wonderful Life”, required me to re-watch the whole movie.  I already had the basic idea in my head, but needed a couple of actual lines from the movie, which true to form did not come until the end of the second hour.  But I like that I have checked off this job on Monday because I need to start racking my brain about the following Sunday.

Before I wrote that assignment I had to write Carter a real letter at camp so I could get it in the noon mail.  I had written her a note to leave on her pillow at camp, but her bunk was consumed by a giant gaggle of girls in their getting-to-know-you session so I could not get close to her bunk and was getting the leave-already look.  I forgot I had that note written and wrote another.

Getting mail at camp is the most important activity there is.  I think that Carter grades me on how many letters I send her.  I have religiously sent her a real letter everyday she has ever been at camp, but since no mail gets delivered on Sundays she feels like I must be slacking off somehow.  Quite frankly that is not that much happening without her home so the letters tend to get repetitive.  How many times can I tell her Shay-Shay misses her?  I know she does not like to here that she should not have left her room such a mess.

This year I am trying something new.  As a reader of this blog would you consider sending Carter a note or postcard at camp?  It does not matter that she may not know you, but I think it would be fun for her to get an avalanche of letters.  You can even put in it that she could share it with someone who did not get any mail that day.  If you went to camp as a kid tell her what your favorite camp activity or memory was.  Her mailing address is:

Carter Lange

Sequoia

Camp Cheerio

1430 Camp Cheerio Rd.

Glade Valley, NC 28627-9731

I am not telling her about this, but I will report her reaction when she actually sends me a letter.  This may free me up to not have to write so much and I can get to my big list of chores, or maybe go to the movies or feel less guilty if I start a new puzzle.  Oh no, I am starting a big new list of fun things to do while Carter is at camp, which means my yucky list might stay intact for another year.