When we were growing up our Mother taught us the value, and importance of sending out thank you cards for different occasions. These occasions included the most obvious ones like appreciation for a birthday gift or a Christmas present, but also for perhaps not as obvious such as an act of kindness, or a thank you at the end of the school year to the teacher or our school bus driver. Those days seem rather far off now, but the giving of thank you cards is something that my siblings, and myself have passed on to the next generation.

It can be fun, and rewarding to teach children the value of sending out thank you cards. In our house we used to play a little game when the children were small like at Christmas time where you would devise your thank you card check list like Santa's elves preparing their great lists, and checking them twice. Then off on a mission to the post office we would go to have all of our cards stamped, and sent off to destinations sometimes faraway. The kids thought it was such great fun!

Today with electronic mail I worry that the giving, and receiving of thank you cards may one day become a lost art in the future.

To keep this wonderful tradition alive we can look to an online source such as Cards Direct that offer these wonderful cards at a fraction of the cost of buying individually at the store. What is great for the kids is that you can order these cards personalized, and include your return addresses on the envelopes giving them their very own unique cards to send to relatives, and friends right from their own desks at home.

Thank you cards are a lovely, and thoughtful tradition that will brighten anyone's day.