Another day of very still children as I read Mailing May again today.  Today as we read we talked about many different things.

We discussed the difference in the department store from the book to today's department store.

We also talked about how May didn't know SHE would be the one leaving in the morning.  Everything that was going on would have lead her to believe that Pa would be leaving for a trip.  May did not complain when sent to bed early nor did she complain about rising early.  She did not ask question after question after question.  She accepted what her Ma and Pa told her and followed the instructions she was given. 

We looked at some old stamps and talked about stamp collections.  We also compared the pictures of the post office from then to our post office today.  The children noted the old stove, the wanted posters, the horse and buggy, train and the very large scale.  They commented that today the wanted pictures are in a little book on a desk and mail is delivered in many more ways now than then.  They also noted how much smaller the scale in our post office is.  They did wonder if the post office uses canvas bags so we have written that down to ask them when we go in later this week. 

We talked briefly about the different classes of mail, but the children weren't at all interested in that topic.