Miss you messages
Most of these get written from a hotel room during a posting, a training, or the long stretch before the family moves. They are for saying the thing that a nightly video call somehow never covers.
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Continue writing opens that message in the card with the words already in it, so all that is left is to change a word and send it. The last message is the longest of the six, and it is the only one you have to copy across yourself.
I miss you. The hotel is fine, the food is fine, and none of it is anything like home. I keep thinking of things to tell you and saving them up for later. Four more days, and I'm counting them properly, not in the casual way.
Continue writing with message 1I miss the noise. It's very quiet where I am and it turns out quiet isn't what I wanted at all. The days go fine and the evenings are far too long. Nothing here needs anything from me, which sounds restful and isn't.
Continue writing with message 2I miss you, steadily, all day, in the background of everything else. I hope things aren't too much at your end. Don't take on more than you have to just because I'm not there. We'll sort the rest of it out when I'm back. ❤️
Continue writing with message 3I miss you. You'd have hated this trip, loudly and in detail, and I'd have enjoyed the whole thing considerably more with you hating it beside me. Nobody here complains properly. It's a much duller way to travel.
Continue writing with message 4Missing you and the kitchen and the whole racket that happens in it around eight in the evening. I've eaten alone all week and it's fine, and it isn't the same thing at all. Keep some of Sunday free. I'll be back by then.
Continue writing with message 5I miss you. The hotel is fine, the food is fine, and not one bit of it is anything like home. I keep saving things up to tell you and forgetting half of them by the time we speak. It turns out I didn't want quiet evenings after all. Four more days, and I'm counting them properly. Keep some of Sunday free for me.
Miss the specifics of home, not home in general. The morning tea, the way she reads out the day's plan, the argument about the geyser — those land, because they are the things she is currently doing alone. Home is an abstraction; the geyser is not.
Keep the apology out of it if you can. A trip you had to take does not need to be atoned for in the same card that says you miss her, and mixing the two turns a warm note into a slightly guilty one. Miss her in this card; apologise, if it is owed, in another.
A card is the one thing a nightly video call cannot do: stay on her phone afterwards.
Write her cardIt arrives as a sealed envelope they open on their phone.