Where'd October go?

Hello, everyone!

I promise I haven't forgotten you, but October was just a really busy month for me! I actually stopped taking pics of stuff I was sending because I guess I felt like I didn't have the 10 seconds it took to take some.

I figure in the month of October I have sent 3 Postcrossing postcards, 6 postcards for Swap-Bot swaps, 12 letters/flat mail for Swap-bot swaps, 3 missionary letters, and 4 letters for my pen pals totaling 28 pieces of outgoing mail if I counted correctly.

In any case, here's the pics I do have:

Incoming Postcrossing, Swap-Bot and personal postcards all arrived on the same day. That's one happy mailbox!

Incoming Missionary Mail!! :)

 If you can't already tell by the lack of posts, I've kind of hit a dry spell with snail mail. For the last few weeks I've been 100% caught up on my outgoing, but have been finding an empty mail box day after day. Not even Postcrossing has come through for me. (I've actually had to dig up some of my other hobbies to keep me occupied!)

However...

 Look what I was so happy to find in my email inbox this morning! I am so excited!

Slowly but surely the Mexican mail system has been working just fine, and my missionary cousin Jason is getting my dorky little letters. :) Even more than that, they're actually making a difference. Jason wrote me to say:

 "Thank you so much for your cards. They seem to be getting to me right at the right times during stressful moments to give me a boost to get through them." 

That is totally ideal of course, but I just figured that more often than not they'd just be a silly little perk.

Kristie recently also gave me the wonderful pleasure of surprising me with a card she made herself! I just haven't taken a picture of it yet, but I'll have to add it to this post as soon as I do. :) It's seriously cute.

 

A Heap of Happy Mail!

My birthday was on Sunday, and for some reason I didn't think there'd be anything special in Monday's mail. However, as you can see I landed quite the stash! Thanks everyone!

Today's Postcrossing December 9, 2014

I was surprised to find two Postcrossing treasures in my mailbox tonight. I'll definitely need to look up where Belarus is!

(The other one is from Illinois, but my blogger app crashes whenever I attempt to put multiple pics on one post. :( )

The Elephant With the Tiny Hat

I didn't make this one, but it's obviously too awesome not to share. I absolutely love this chubby flag-waving elephant and his tiny hat! Thanks Em and Kayla!