The Post Post
Over the weekend, we set ourselves the task of installing a mailbox outside of the kids’ room. They love getting mail, but they have the unfortunate luck of having lackluster and supremely disorganized parents who constantly forget to give them their mail, and instead leave it at the bottom of a pile of bills, laundry and dirty dishes on the dinner table. If you care to, you can find the details of the installation over on the Idiots’Books blog, over here.
The upshot is, Alden and Kato (and August, too, I guess) now have a mail box. It says “POST” on it, actually.
It’s so dandy and red, I kind of wish I had one outside of my bedroom door. (Though, I don’t actually have a bedroom door, since our studio and bedroom are one room, accessed on one side by a spiral staircase (no door) and a half stairway up to the door to the living room (no wall) – which makes the whole proposition too confusing to even contemplate).
They received their first pieces of mail just minutes after we installed the mailbox (the whole installation was spurred by the fact that I had found a couple pieces of their mail under a pile of bills, laundry and dirty dishes on the dinner table and didn’t know where to put them).
There was an invite to a party included, as well as their very favorite magazine, National Geographic Kids. If you don’t already get this magazine, you should. I think part of the appeal is that it’s small – kid-sized. It’s easy to thumb through, and the puzzles, games and factoids are simple enough to digest without being overwhelmed with information. Our kids love it. If you want to, subscribe to it here. (And in case you’re wondering, I’m not getting paid to say this, we just like the magazine and like supporting it.) Of course, if your kids like getting stuff in the mail, there’s also a Bobbledy Books subscription, which you can subscribe to here. (Okay, okay, I admit, we get kickbacks from this one, but really, the kickbacks come in the form of writing books, drawing pictures, and tending to a helpless newborn business all day).
All this is to say, the kids were occupied for the rest of the afternoon with reading their magazine and checking the mail every five minutes.
Time well spent, I’d say.
