Have you ever written a letter to the future?

[Pacifist Patriot]

I am too lazy for baby books so I bought all of my kids those "time capsule" thingys. I only wrote the letter to the future for my first son and that was when I was expecting his first sibling when he was almost four.

The other two? nada

My husband is being sent to the UK for four weeks so his company offered to send the family over for three of the four weeks. We reached the tough decision that the four year old would be a nightmare on an 8 hour flight, would be difficult to entertain with a 7 and 11 year old in the city and would barely remember the experience anyway. So he is staying with grandma and grandpa for three weeks. Enter Guilt!

I just sat down and wrote a three page letter to my youngest son in the event that something happens while we are separated. Am I crazy? I am now sitting here at 1 AM red-eyed with sinuses 100% clogged. That is quite an exercise to imagine yourself talking to your son from the grave.

Was I silly or prudent?