• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • , • • • • • • fr•IN •• • • • • • • • • • • • • frontlines IN, • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • 0" my *0 wor---41 1 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •14.11 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 I • • 0• • • • • • know handwritten notes are becoming obsolete, which is all the more reason to cherish the ones you do get, even if they aren't quite the conventional lovey-dovey kind. For example: The Monday after school ended for the year, we started summer vacation with a bang. I was taking my kids for a few days to Niagara Falls. Before we left the house, I said, "Who wants to leave a good-bye note for Daddy? He'll get it when he comes home from work today:' I couldn't imagine anyone writing more than a `Love ya, will miss ya, don't have too much fun with- out us!' kind of note, so I was quite shocked when my distinctly un-gushy 14-year-old son took a pen and paper and spent a few pensive-looking moments writing. I had to take a peek. He'd written: "Went bike riding Be back at 7. Bentzi" — and, yep, later that evening, as predicted, my husband called, his voice high-pitched with worry, "What?! Why didn't Bentzi go with you?!" Ah, the fun you can play with a few words on a piece of paper! It reminds me of the time my daughter had parent-teacher conferences a few years ago. Right before I walked out the door to meet her teachers, my daughter reminded me, "Don't forget to leave a treat for me on my desk:' I was hearing about this custom right on schedule — 10 min- JN CONTENTS utes before my appointed time. I wouldn't have a chance to run out and buy something. She would just have to be the only stu- dent without a sweet non-surprise from a parent in the morning. But then I reconsidered. The next morning, Raizel found a small pile of crumbs (pinched from the bottom of my bag) on her desk with a note that said, "Your mother left you something yummy, but I ate it. Sincerely, the mouse." I don't think she treasured that note like the one she came home waving on the first day of first grade. "Look, look!" she said, giddy with joy. In freshly learned print letters, it said: "You are my BFE" Playing dumb, I asked her, "What's a BFF?" "Mommy!" Throwing me an exasperated don't-you- know-anything look, she said, "It means we're best friends for the whole year!" A year is forever for a 5-year-old. But no letter can top the smudged love letters a mother receives from her kids when they are just learning to write. I have a few, but one of my favor- ites is the one that says in spiky, angry letters: "Dear Mommy. I hate you. Love, (my child who would disown me i f I wrote his name here)." Doesn't matter what the handwriting on the wall says, technol- ogy isn't always worth writing home about. It just doesn't strike the same note as a good ol' pen and paper. ❑ 0 9 1j3d1°1\) e "...to learn, be inspired and inspire others to travel on this Jewish journey." 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