With love from: Mom and D… whoops, scratch

To: Littlebears, From: GrammaKath and GranpaB… whoops, smear

From our house to yours: Bill and Kath… oh whoops, start over. 

It has a mind of its own— this pen. It’s in a deep ink rut. 

It’s hard to change ink pen habits. They’re use to signing Christmas cards and Christmas tags the way they always have. They know the givers’ names and that they go together.  The ink pen swirls imprinting the to’s and from’s, as it does every year, doing its job so you don’t have to. It is not inclined to forget how because of its importance in the long-standing signing ritual. And it resists digression.  If you need to make a change, you’ll want to plan on extra cards or tags— tossing several and starting over. Plan to be patient. Forming new pen-habits takes time. 

If as a receiver, you notice a go-together-name that doesn’t actually go together any more, forgive the pen. It struggles to remember the new way to sign. Or perhaps the pen wants you to remember both go-together givers.  Maybe the go-together givers still go together.