My baby boy,

Hello handsome. I was productive and got all the Christmas decorations taken down today, including the outside! Don’t worry though, I left the orange and black spider from Halloween on the tree. At this point, he needs to just bring happiness to the rest of the neighbors. Miss Brenda and I talked and think he needs something special for Valentine’s Day. Maybe I will let him live out the rest of his days in Hawaii on that tree and I will just bring him in when the movers come.

I don’t know how long we will be without beds this time around. Nothing will ever come close to the three months without a bed when we came here. Our window of when the movers come is February 4th to the 10th. Worst case scenario, we have no beds and sleep on air mattresses for three weeks. We are looking for beds now so they can be up in the new house when we get there. Air mattresses only last so long with you guys. In the three months from Virginia to Hawaii I think we went through about ten air mattresses.

I made pork and sauerkraut for dinner today. It said to be “good luck” on New Year’s Day. I have my doubts, since I’ve been eating that every year since I was a child, but it’s a tradition. My Aunt Bev used to make it every year when we went to her house for New Year’s Day and that’s the one thing I held on to and still do.

I’m keeping it shorter tonight because Ellie wrote you a letter. I love you more than anything, my sweet boy. Goodnight and sweet dreams.

ℋ𝒾 ℐ𝓈𝒶𝒾𝒶𝒽

ℐ 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉ℯ𝒹 𝓉ℴ 𝒸𝒽ℯ𝒸𝓀 ℴ𝓃 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓁ℯ𝓉𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝓀𝓃ℴ𝓌 𝒾 𝓁ℴ𝓋ℯ 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝓈ℴ 𝓂𝓊𝒸𝒽  𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝒽𝒶𝓋ℯ 𝒶 𝑔𝓇ℯ𝒶𝓉 𝓃ℯ𝓌 𝓎ℯ𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝒹𝒶𝓎．ℐ 𝒶𝓂 𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓃ℴ𝓌 𝓌𝒶𝓉𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓁𝓊𝒸𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓈𝓅𝒾𝒹ℯ𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝒹 ℴ𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝓅𝒽ℴ𝓃ℯ．ℐ 𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓈 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝒽ℴ𝓅ℯ 𝓎𝓅𝓊 𝒶𝓇ℯ 𝓅𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝒾𝒸ℯ 𝓎ℴ𝓊𝓇 𝒻𝓁𝒾𝓅𝓈 𝓇ℯ𝓂ℯ𝓂𝒷ℯ𝓇 ℴ𝓊𝓇 𝑔𝒶𝓂ℯ 𝓅𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝒾𝒸ℯ 5 𝒾 𝒻ℴ𝓇𝑔ℯ𝓉 𝒾 𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓈 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝒶𝓇ℴ𝓊𝓃𝒹．ℐ 𝓈ℯℯ 𝒶𝓁𝓁 ℴ𝒻 𝓎ℴ𝓊𝓇 𝓅𝒾𝒸𝓉𝓊𝓇ℯ𝓈 𝒾𝒻 𝓌ℯ ℯ𝓋ℯ𝓇 𝑔ℴ 𝓉ℴ 𝒷ℯ𝓁𝓁ℴ𝓌𝓈 𝒾𝓂 𝑔ℴ𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉ℴ 𝓈ℯℯ 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝓇𝒾𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 ℴ𝓊𝓇 𝒷ℴ𝒹𝓎 𝒷ℴ𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈 ℴ𝓃 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓌𝒶𝓋ℯ．ℰ𝓋ℯ𝓃 𝓉𝒽ℴ𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝒾 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝓎ℯ𝓁𝓁ℯ𝒹 𝒶𝓉 𝓎ℴ𝓊，𝒴ℴ𝓊 𝓌ℯ𝓇ℯ 𝓂𝓎 𝒷ℯ𝓈𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾ℯ𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓋ℯ ℯ𝓋ℯ𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝒾𝓂 𝑔ℴ𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉ℴ 𝑔ℴ 𝓃ℴ𝓌 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝓃ℯ𝓌 𝓎ℯ𝒶𝓇𝓈 ℐ 𝓁ℴ𝓋ℯ 𝓎ℴ𝓊．