Christmas Party

 Today we went to church and then went to our neighbors annual Christmas party! It was as wonderful as always and we had a good time eating and talking. As we were the onky kids there, it was a good thing that Michael brought playing cards.We played Cheat. (A really fun game that we learned from Liz Czarnecki!) Cassia won both games. Katrina and Seth went and played Chess on the Chess board and i went over and watched them. Next to the chair I was sitting on was a little table. I was looking at the things on it and found a letter from a solder in World War 2 who had written to his Aunt Grace. His name was Rolland and he wrote the letter Somewhere in France (directly what he had said) in February 1945! He had written to a girl named Rita and had thought that she would give his aunt an update, but I guess she didn't. He said that soap and choclate were things that the solders were really trying to get as they were extremely rare. He said that the day was really nice and "There is going to be a show tonight, so I guess we will have to take that in." I'm not sure what that meant, but it was SO cool getting to read such and old letter! His handwriting was SO much better than any other guy's handwriting I know today! It's amazing how we have slackened in penmanship at school! It has been less than 100 years and already our handwriting is going downhill! If the Lord tarries, what will people's handwriting be like in 50 years from now? I think it will probably have gotten a lot worse!
 Anyway, I just thought that finding and reading that letter was SO AMAZING and it heped make the past come a lttle more alive for me. In History subjects they tell you about stuff like that and you read historical fiction, but its not as real as actually seeing and HOLDING and even READING something from history! That just makes it so much more alive! We go to museums and see stuff but its not the same as holding it!