Letter No. 2: Reedsville, Pennsylvania

Only a single day after receiving her first piece of mail, Freja got her second card in the mail. This one came from Charlene, the mother of one of my former dance students, and baker of fantastic eatables, who lives in Reedsville, Pennsylvania. (I also learned on this occasion that Reedsville is a census-designated place, something I had never heard of before, but I didn't bother to explain it to Freja, because I doubt her interest in the minutiae of local municipal governments (or the lack thereof)).

The card was bright, and Freja was really not into waiting for me to take pictures of it before I allowed her to open it.

... really, really not into having her picture taken.

Inside was a Halloween card with "a baby spider on it"!

"With a trick-or-treat bucket!"

The next day, we looked up Reedsville online, and Freja really, really liked the pictures of the Amish and horses that we found on a Google Image Search (because growing up in Pennsylvania, she's NEVER seen either of those things before. *ahem*) Then, she sat down to pen her reply to Charlene.

The headband is imperative to writing success.

She also decided to include a drawing of a princess on the back of the letter, because PRINCESS. 

It's a bit boxy up top, but I like the puffy sleeves. 

The finished letter: 

Dear Charlene,

Thank you for the card! There's a spider on it! It opens! The spider has eyelashes! That means it's a girl spider.

I drew a princess for you. I don't know her name. No, it's Rapunzel with a colorful dress. It has four colors. There's pink and purple and red and a darker purple mixed with red. 

Thank you for the card again!

Love, Freja

Yes, thank you, Charlene!

... PRINCESS.