The Letters are Home!

The Love letters that we wrote about last week are now back with their family. We received an email from Julie (the daughter of the letter writers) and she is thrilled to have them back. Here is part of her email to us:

"Dear Jenni and Ben,

I want to express my gratitude for your thoughtfulness. I received the letters today and have started reading them. Of course, Mom and Dad shared some of their courtship stories, but the written history is more intimate. Dad has been gone 30 years and Mom 9.

Thank you again, Julie"

We are so happy we were able to reunite the family with their letters. Family history is near and dear to our hearts as well.

XOXO
Jenni & Ben

Reunited...and it feels so good.

You guys...we just had the coolest thing happen. 

At The Olde Depot Junktion sale (that we did over Memorial Day in Brainerd) 

we met a History teacher named Beth Z. 

She was very interested in the box of WWII love letters that we had. 

We chatted about them for awhile and she bought a few of them to share with her classes. 

A few days later we got an email from her saying that through some internet research, she had found Julie B. , the daughter of the couple in the letters! Beth forwarded the email response from Julie:

"That is indeed my mother and father, who are both deceased. My Dad was always writing home (St. Paul) to my mother. He was stationed in London and was a pilot in WWII. I believe he was also in Stevens Point, WI and other parts of the U.S. Of a family of six there are only my brother and myself left"

After hearing this we knew the right thing to do. So we gathered up all the letters and are going to be mailing them out today (5/30/14) to Julie B. What a wonderful surprise that will be for her and her brother. We're just happy that they are finding their way back to the family!

We will keep you posted about their journey!

Have a wonderful weekend!

XOXO,

Jenni & Ben

a Vintage Parcel