Hey, Mom and Dad

To Mom and Dad: If you are reading this then I assume that the message to the future thing worked. If it did not then I guess my message is lost in time. This may sound weird, but this email is sent from the past. I found a website that emails a message to the future. Kind of cool. So the date today that write this is Feb 28 2006. I guess the day that you receive this letter is on my birthday. I also most likely have forgotten that I have written this letter. I guess, I'm now 25. Time has flied. Hopefully I have a good job, and I am leading the life that God has in store for me. What ever that may be. The time that I am writing this letter, I am an RA on 1st VanDellen. This year has gone really well, and I hope I can be an RA next year. I am a junior student at Calvin College in civil engineering. I hope to change people lives, that is why I am also considering to be a teacher. Today, I played broomball against another dorm's RA staff. I kicked some major but. I guess that hockey I played was good for me. I have a lot of homework, but I feel that this will be something that will be meaningful in the future to both you and me. I want to thank you for being there for me. I want to thank you for being a support in my life and giving me guidance when I needed it, but also letting me lead my life the way I felt I should. If it weren’t for you I would not be the person that I am today. You have taught me so much about how to live my life the way that I should. I love you. I want to thank you for putting me through Timothy Christian School. I must have been a tough time for both of you putting Natasha and I through school while being so young. Timothy has given me strong roots. I have friends still to this day from Timothy. I understand the importance of a Christian education. I want to thank you for pushing me to get a job, at times I did not want to get a job, but you knew it was best for me. Most of the time if it weren’t for your connections I would not have had those jobs. Thank you. I want to say thank you for making me strive to be good at school. I would not be here if I did not have this drive to do well. I probably wouldn’t be an in engineering if it weren’t for this drive. I suppose I might be a father, or expecting a child, if I’m married, or maybe not married, what ever happens. You get what I’m trying to say. I want to thank you for the way you brought me up. I think I will be a great father, by the way that you have brought me up. Thank you for all the trips. I know some of the trips to Grundy, nova Scotia, Florida, kill bear, little Europe, acitigue island, 6 mile lake, might have cost a lot, and may have caused some difficulties finically, but I thank you. I have all these wonderful memories of camping, and spending quality time with my parents. Some bad memories too (getting injured on every trip we have gone on). Dad thank you for your patience with me. I will always remember the three years we took cadets by surprise with winning cars. More so, I will always remember the time you spent with me working on those cars. Working on those cars has also given me the ability to be a good craftsman. I hope in the future, which is now that I can fix up my house, and that I can have a hobby car. Mom I don’t get it, but it is so easy to talk to you on the phone, and I hate using them. I love telling you a story and hearing you laugh so hard that I hear Dad ask "Hey! Tell me what’s so funny". You bring me comfort; you have this way of talking to me and really southing my soul. You both have lead, and grown me to be the man I am today. Thank you. I love you both so much