Thank You in spirit :)

So, my cousins wife sent me a message on facebook recently. They got married and wanted to send us a thank you note for our gift. Wanted to know our address. How thoughtful! So polite! To be honest, I didn't expect a thank you card, and in the story that follows, you will find out why.

That got me thinking about when we got married... A little over a year ago Travis and I got married and It was of the utmost importance to me to write everyone "Thank You" notes right away! I had these done 2 weeks after we were married! I had a list of what everyone had given us so the notes could be personal. My right hand was bloody and cramped. Handwriting got worse and worse as I went but they were DONE. I even got them stamped, addressed, and ready to send. Boy, we were awesome! On top of it, right off the bat. This marriage was getting off to a great start.

However, as you may do the math... this put us right into the first of April. Finals time. We were both in college so things got pretty stressful. The cards were ready to go but just in a bag in Trav's nightstand. We were living with Grandma Thacker at the time. The cards just didn't get sent.

School ended and we started to get ready to move to Price. We started cleaning out our stuff at Grandma Thacker's house. Oh, and we were gonna send off those cards.... Wait a minute, what happened to the cards? We searched that bedroom high and low. Searched Grandma Thacker's whole house. My mom's house. Our cars. They were nowhere to be found!! To this day I do not know what happened to those dang cards. The worst part is, the list of people and gifts were with the cards so we couldn't even rewrite them. And lets be honest, I really didn't want to anyway. A few of the notes were given out so I had no idea who got one and who was in the bag.....

If you know me at all, you know this bugged me for weeks and weeks. I finally just had to let it go and accept that I was one of those rude people who don't give thank you cards.... Hopefully my family and friends would understand. Travis and I just laugh about it now, what else is there to do?!

So if you gave me something for my bridal shower/wedding, know that I DID write you a thank you note, you just didn't get it because the thank you card monster got to them before I could get them sent. Hopefully everyone felt our Thank You in spirit :)