How to Create a Letter Writing Station
If you’ve been following my blog the past couple of months, you know I am completely swamped with work stuff and just trying to keep my head above water. (As a side note, I enjoyed reading this article, which included this quote: “We’re expected to do our jobs as if we don’t have children — and then raise our children as if we don’t have jobs.”)
But right before the big tsunami of work stuff hit, I had a period where I was actually able to attain some balance. During that [very brief] period, I cleaned out the drawers in my bedside table and created a letter writing station, so that I could easily get back into the habit of sending hand-written correspondence.
Oh, how I used to be such a cool and interesting person before I had children! I used to write letters! And send quirky postcards!
It will be quite a while before I can regain the glory of my old days, but I at least wanted to make it easier on myself to send an occasional hand-written correspondence.
Our bedside tables are old filing cabinets (found on Craigslist) that Matt spray painted. They have two drawers and then a really deep drawer for hanging files. We went with this option so that we could easily hide away clutter.
Once one of the drawers was cleaned out, I filled it with cards, postcards, and stationary. I also have a clipboard so I can write while sitting on my bed. I have a pen, my address stamper, and postage stamps. Everything I need is in one location! It’s incredibly easy to complete the whole post-card writing process is less than five minutes.
2 Comments
veg girl
Seems to me that you still do cool, interesting things – they're just new and different cool things. Like daily swims in your pool with your kids sounds pretty great to me.
saracotner
Thank you for that perspective, veg girl! That's a really good way to look at it!
It's hard because I used to do a lot of cool, interesting things that benefited a variety of other people, and now most of that energy goes straight into my boys or the school.
But it's just the season of life that I'm in!