I remember reading about this idea and wondering what happened with it. I got excited as soon as I saw the title :-)
I think it’s a fantastic idea and something your Charlotte will treasure when she’s older!!
You definitely can’t stop now…those snippets of your lives together will mean so much to her - and you - in many, many years. I often wonder if my memories and my mom’s coincide. Your notes to Charlotte will ensure that you both remember the important things, like stuffed alpacas.
cute idea with the postcards!
I keep journals for both of my girls. I don’t know if I will ever stop writing to them…
and now my 11.5 year old and I keep a special one back and forth….
taraSo nice! Wish I had done that. I’ve kept weekly or monthly notes on my boys, but not messages directly to them. Such treasures….
Alicia - I’m really loving it! When Charlotte was an infant I didn’t write very many to her because it seemed like…like nothing big was happening, you know? I mean, she was a baby. She did baby things. What’s to write about? I wrote that initial post about the postcards in the hopes that it would sort of inspire me to get going, to write to her more, because when I looked back at those initial postcards I wished I’d written more frequently after all. In retrospect, there was SO MUCH to tell her about - I have no idea why I thought there wasn’t.
Kimberly - I hope so! I think it’ll be a fun gift for her in a couple decades =)
Agree, why stop! I have journals I bought while pregnant with each child. Sometimes I go a really long time without entering something, other times, not too long. Each time is just a little clip. I hope to keep it up until I’m ready to give them to them. When they grow up? Move out on their own? Get married? Expect their own child? I die? Who knows!! :) All I know is that I cherish reading my parents written words to me, and that it means so very much.
Never stop…that’s my advise. My sons still say funny things, or share their dreams or a memory with me and I jot it down on an index card and date it. Once in awhile I will read one or two back to them and it’s joyous. Grown men enjoying both what they’ve said in the past and the fact that Mom has documented it. Quite wonderful. Never stop…
What a glorious idea! I have a blog, for my daughter to one day read about her early years but the short personal notes from only mother to child… So perfect.

By Anthony from CharismaticKid on June 16, 2011
You should post some on here for us to read!