Parenting Guru: Dear Mom, Send my Dittos!

Akemi

When I went to sleepaway camp, letters arrived the old-fashioned way, by mail. They were also written the old-fashioned way, either by hand or typed on a typewriter. I was only away at camp for a week, but somehow, I'd managed to send one letter to my mom and she'd managed to send two to the tweenage me. Hi Honey!

Thanks for your letter! We all enjoyed reading it. Your brother got a kick out of your, "Hi little brother!" and smiled and said, "sick!" It really is so QUIET around our home. Sometimes I wish you would be quieter; but right now, I'd welcome your chitter-chatter! I'm going to dust and change your sheets today when I get home. That room is too empty without you... I never knew how much all of us miss you.

I hope you understand that I won't be able to mail your light blue Dittos with your favorite pink top because by the time it gets to you, you will be on your way home. It takes three to four days to mail a package. Well, have to quickly send this off to you!

Love, Mom.
p/s Sorry, it's short The takeaway message here is not that my family missed me and not that I had a gift for chitter chatter. No, the takeaway message is that my mom would not be sending me my light blue Dittos! Back in the day, dittos were all the rage but as a pre-teen, I didn't wear them in a sexy way. I remember going with my mom to JC Penny when I was a girls size 10 slim (slim!). Now that celebrities are wearing them as retro fashion, I wish I'd kept a couple of pairs to sell on eBay. I lived in my Dittos.

I wonder how I'd managed to keep my disappointment at bay, licking banana slugs and performing camp skits while not clad in my favorite pair of light blue Dittos. Oh, the horror!

What was the most outlandish thing you requested your mom mail to camp?

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Akemi Bourgeois is a Yahoo! Parenting Guru and mom to twin boys. They live in the Bay Area. She writes at Chalk and Cheese Chronicles and edits the blog, Mad About Multiples. She is an editor of at Technorati Women. Follow her on Twitter: svtwinmom.