UnFROGettable Mail in Honor of Leap Day!

What could be better than an actual letter in your mailbox? Why, an extra day to send and receive mail, of course!!

Frog Forever Stamp 2019

With the release of the frog FOREVER stamp by the USPS in 2019, now is the perfect time to create and send some frog inspired mail!! The frog is the unofficial mascot of Leap Day because of all the leaping they do, I assume. 🐸 

Although I don’t regard them very favorably in a face to face close encounter, I do enjoy a good frog (and toad) story. I don’t really know why, as they are not particularly beautiful or majestic or intelligent, but frogs and toads are all over children’s literature. Princesses are kissing them, they drive cars recklessly, they go swimming in silly bathing costumes and eat too many cookies!! The literary adventures of frogs and toads are many and varied, to be sure! Sending a book or a book recommendation via post is a wonderful way to celebrate this Leap Day! (In my humble opinion, book based mail is the best!!) 🥰📚📬 

Take advantage of this “extra” day and send some literary frog mail to the young pen pals in your life! Some of my favorite froggy kid lit includes:

• Frog and Toad Storybook Treasury by Arnold Lobel
• The Tale of Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter
• Tadpole’s Promise by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
• Toad Rage by Maurice Gleitzman

(Frog and Toad Are Friends)

Another fun option is to create a “time capsule” letter. A lot can happen in four years. Write down some of your thoughts, hopes and dreams, what you are currently reading, doing, interested in and seal it in an envelope. Mark it “To be opened on Leap Day 2024” and enclose with an explanatory letter to your dearest pen pal. Encourage them to write you back with their own enclosed time capsule. Keep it some place safe and make a note to open it on the next leap day...with your pen pal, hopefully! ❤️

Leap day is viewed as a gift of 24 hours! This year it’s a Saturday, a day off for many. But good news the USPS delivers on Saturday! (Thank a mail carrier today!) 

Kids and adults alike love the idea of an extra day!! Won’t you join me in creating some Leap Day post!? Leap into the pleasurable pursuit of postal projects with me! 

XOXO

Mrs. Murphy