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Building Relationships with #EmailLove

Thursday, July 7, 2011 by Lolli 3 Comments

Thank you to Yahoo! Mail for sponsoring this post about staying connected. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective, which endorses Blog With Integrity, as I do.
 


Photo taken by Christine of From Dates to Diapers

 

Two weeks ago today I was on the road to Asheville, NC for Type A Parent Conference. I am lucky that my job as a blogger right here, a photographer at home, and editor at 5 Minutes for Mom allows me to do what I love everyday. I get to write, share, and socialize with amazing women all week long.

But it’s not every day that I get to hang out with those incredible friends face to face. So much of the relationship building that I do everyday is through email. It’s amazing to me how well you can get to know a person through their writing.

My online jobs also allow me to be home with my kids (although they will probably complain that I am busier now than I ever have been). Now that I have a few “older” kids, I love that we are also building relationships through email.

When I wake up every morning, I roll over and reach for my iPhone to check the emails that have come through over night. On my first morning in Asheville, I scrolled through my emails and found one that had come from KitKat, my oldest daughter, who had just finished her freshman year of high school the week prior to Type A. I clicked on the email to open it.

This is the message I found:

I got straight a’s!!!!!!!!!!
89.7 in algebra 2 and physics!!!!!
I am sooooo happy!

I told Janice, my roommate, that I was more excited that KitKat wanted to share her news with me while I was away than I was about the exciting news that the email contained.

Email has connected me with my teenage daughter at a time when most kids don’t want anything to do with their parents. I am thrilled that email has opened up another line of communication for me and my kids.

I love that this short video from Yahoo! Mail totally speaks to this issue of connecting parents and kids.

 

How has email helped YOU build relationships?

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About Lolli

Lolli has written 3740 post in this blog.

I became a mom in 1996, and in 2005 I had my fifth. Yes, 5 kids. In 2007, this blog was born (my 6th baby that will never grow up) and I've been sharing recipes, photography tricks, parenting tips, and everything in between. (Formerly Better in Bulk)

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  2. Amanda @ High Impact Mom says

    Friday, July 8, 2011 at 11:15 am

    LOVE it! Makes you even more proud that she shared via email doesn’t it? ;-)

  3. Kristi {at} Live and Love Out Loud says

    Friday, July 8, 2011 at 2:30 am

    How sweet that she thought to email you! I certainly treasure the text messages and FB messages I receive from my kids too. You’re such a great mom, Lolli!
    By the way, I wrote a post for the Yahoo! Mail Campaign too. Though mine wasn’t all that sweet. As a matter of fact, it’s all about how I was dumped…via email. lol

    Here’s the link if you’re interested: https://liveandloveoutloud.com/2011/07/07/staying-connected-and-breaking-up-via-email/

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