My 7 year old daughter, Iris loves to write letters. She’s kept a steady correspondence with the Tooth Fairy over the past couple of years who exchange their letters through her tooth fairy pouch she keeps on her doorknob.
Her latest letter:
To Tooth Fairy,
My tooth fairy pouch broke, so I put it next to my bed. Can you ring the bells to wake me up (only on a school night) so we can think of things to fix my pouch?
Iris
P.S. Am I a fairy?
P.S.S. Did Jack Frost take all the snow animals?
Iris
Recently, Valerie over at Atlantamomofthree did a postcard exchange which I participated in because I knew my kids would love getting some “real” mail.
When we received our postcard, letters and some stickers the kids were so excited. They loved looking at the pictures on the postcard, they loved learning about another family and of course getting some fun stickers in the mail was an extra bonus.
Postcard from Valerie and her family
My 5 year old son, Bency fell asleep last night clutching his sheets of stickers.
There is definitely something special about receiving something in your mailbox or I guess your tooth fairy pouch that just can’t be replaced with an email. You get to hold those pieces of paper containing the words that someone wrote especially for you. They gave you a piece of them that you will have forever.
Thank you Valerie and family!!
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To read more letters to the Tooth Fairy that Iris has written read the following stories:
She Believes in Unicorns and Other Fancy Stuff
The Tooth Fairy is Involved in the Case of the Missing Library Book
Motherhood Is An Art 
aww so cute! and another great idea! x
Thank you!
Great reminder!!! I love getting real mail too! I need to start sending more myself.
I need to start having Iris send you some letters…which I think she has but I never have any extra stamps in the house!!!
I like real mail! But I’m so conditioned to seeing only junk mail or bills that getting the mail is a little bit of a chore for me. Love that mail exchange idea — that’s really cute!
Yes, we rarely get anything except bills and junk mail…when it was election time I gave all the flyers to Iris and told her she got mail!
I’ve been searching all over the net trying to find my oldest a penpal! This is super cute.
We need an adult one as well!
I know!!! We were just chatting about this the other day!
Thanks for sharing, Melissa. I love receiving letters in the mail, and of course a package. It can sometimes be a surprise, but sure makes your day. Have a Blessed Day, Mtetar
Thanks Mtetar! Sometimes those little things can sure brighten your day!
They sure do, and I hope this does. I nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. Kindly chech my Award Category and view it. Best, Mtetar
Aw, Iris is so precious! I love her use of imagination. Has she ever asked you if she’s a fairy? Or, is that question only reserved for the “real” tooth fairy?
Oh no, she has never asked me! I just discovered this note in her pouch today and just about died laughing! She also didn’t ask me to help her fix her pouch! Apparently I’m chopped liver compared to the Tooth Fairy!!!
You’re never too old for a piece of unexpected mail to Cher you up. I got something from my sister-in-law yesterday hat had that effect on me. I didn’t go to sleep clutching it, of course, but I kind of wanted to!
Depending what outfit and era you are referring to, it would kind of be fun to be Cher-ed up…I think I would definitely go with 80’s Cher!
*Cheer, not Cher. Though it might be interesting to be Cher-ed up. Very interesting!
The p.s.’s are great. Very cute.
Yes, the p.s.’s were my favorite of the letter too!!
By the way, my kids love getting mail and so did I when I was a kid.
Yeah, I had a few pen pals when I was a kid and it was always exciting to get a new letter in the mail! I even had one from France and that was a pretty big deal to me!
Cool. One of the things that excited around birthdays was the cards I got in the mail.
cute letter! I love the imaginations of young kids (and the faith)! The postcard exchange looks like a really fun idea!
I know their imaginations are the best! If you’re interested in exchanging postcards head over to my About page for my email! I know Iris would love writing to your son!
That would be fun! I’ll have to go find some postcards now! haha!
I’m so glad they enjoyed the mail! I am too!! What is it about receiving something handwritten in the mail? It’s almost a lost art!
Exactly!! Thanks again Valerie!!
Ah the days of receiving mail hand written (letters) have been long forgotten. We receive only bills in envelopes or possibly the occasional card. Mum still writes to friends because she has never touched a computer in her life and at 83 she isn’t about to start.
Precious Iris and Bency, unless we make an effort especially the younger generation to keep writing it may very well be a thing of the past. What a lovely idea that was to send postcards. Psst Tell Iris it’s really really hot in Australia and that’s where the snow animals went… Jack Frost 🙂
Oh darn, I saw this too late! The tooth fairy already slipped her a note and said Jack Frost took the snow animals on vacation! I’ll tell Iris in the morning that I got word that the vacation was to Australia!!
🙂 excellent
I like getting letters with money in them (Hint, Hint)
I second that!
Oh my word – could your kids get any cuter?! I love her imagination and stick-to-it-ivness. (Is that a word? Guess it is now!) Can’t wait to see what the tooth fairy suggests to fix the pouch! 🙂
I noticed that the Tooth Fairy slipped a reply note into her pouch and FIXED the pouch while Iris was at school today!!! I just don’t understand why she wouldn’t ask her own mother to fix the pouch instead of turning to the Tooth Fairy first!!
That Tooth Fairy is pretty amazing.
I suppose it seems more magical to ask the tooth fairy. I mean – after all – she KNOWS mom can fix it. 😉
I send my grandkids those cards that make music all the time and it drives their mother nuts.Seems they just keep rereading opening and closing the card until she thinks she is going deaf.It causes much laughter and dancing.I love the mail because I don’t even have to go over there to have fun.
Those musical cards are the worst….for parents! My 2 year old son got one at his last birthday a long with lots of nice new toys. He played with that card for weeks. I finally hid it because I couldn’t take any more of “Celebrate Good Times”
You are not going to believe this but that was one of the first ones I ever bought Alexis.
So cool. Olivia is turning 5 in a couple of weeks. We’ve been practicing writing. I’d love for her to write letters to someone, maybe her cousin, anyone. I love the tooth fairy letter!
Thank you! It really is nice for the little ones to get practice and feel connected with people!
Oh! I love this idea! 🙂 is so fun 🙂 it’s so true, it’s so nice to hold on to a letter someone wrote to you 🙂
I know! It is so special!
I just got mine too! It was such a neat idea.
It really was, I’m glad she did it!
I know about kids and loving to get letters. My kids love getting letters too! Corde got a letter not to long ago from a friend of mine from high school that included some cards she could put up in stores (encouraging my little activist! It’s about Hartz animal products and their safety. Corde loved it!) My aunt is going to be sending her a letter soon too. We’re trying to get her hooked up with plenty of people to write to. If your kids would ever be interested in doing a letter exchange or having a pen pal in Texas, let me know! I know my kids would definitely love it too!
Iris’s letter made me giggle uncontrollably!!!! P.S. Am I a fairy?! I’M DYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this. After reading this and some of the comments I am going to start sending mail to the kids as well. Wonderful! 🙂
Sweet letter. And great idea with the mail for the kids. I remember once Emma telling me she was going to wait up all night for the tooth fairy. She wanted to clip her wings so she could sty with her forever. Not sure if that’s sweet or scary…