take me back

A good friend of mine today instated a Time Travel Tuesday segment on her blog. I thought the idea was pretty clever, what with the brilliant use of alliteration, and so here I am, copying the idea right out from under her.

Today I'd like to take you back to the year 1989. I was seven years old and had apparently just returned from a visit to see my grandparents in St. George, four hours south of my home in Provo. I was already missing my grandma "a lot" and had decided to tell her so. In the letter I mailed off to her I not only express this sentiment, I also demonstrate my budding flare for the creative with a short story. My grandma shared it with me during my visit home a few weeks ago, and I got such a good laugh out of it, I thought I'd share it with you here.



Translation:

Dear grandma,
I will miss you a lot I try to visit you I will tell you a story about a little frog who went on a visit to a friends home. I will tell it now. Once upon a time there was a man frog named Jamiy. He was very lonly at his home so he went to a friends home to have a little fun. It was getting late and the little frog Jamiy had to go home but wen the frog got home there was a ghost in his home. He ran under the cuvers and just like that he was a sleep under the cuvers.

The End

My favorite line? "I will tell it now." I really should incorporate that phrase into my daily conversations more often.

Around this same time, I was not only sending my grandparents letters/stories, I was also sending them pieces of original art. Here is a family portrait I drew up. Notice that we are posed in front of our home which, actually, is a pretty acurate rendition, if I may say so. Also notice that my "big family" is only about half the size it ultimately grew to; my younger siblings, Katie, Scott, and Chelsea, had yet to enter the picture.



I like to think that maybe my talent for writing has improved at least a little over the last 20 years. I only wish I could say the same about my artistic ability.