Letterboxing with AdventurousAcorn

In my earliest days of letterboxing, we were just "The Loveday Family." We used a store bought stamp, probably from a Micheals Arts and Crafts Store. It was a cartoon frog that was skipping and leaping in the air with a huge smile on his face. I don't remember the exact story of how we selected this stamp, but I imagine it was more of a hand-me-down than a decision. My mom, at the time, was teaching first and second grade (multiage) at Mantua Elementary School at Mantua ES in Fairfax, VA. Her classrooms theme was frogs, and EVERYTHING was frog themed. She has frog stickers for her students, frog stamps, frog number lines, frog books, even a frog themed Box Top holder. I believe this frog passion stemmed from the frogs we had in our aquarium. Anyway, this stamp was used on her students papers, so it was multi-purposed for letterboxes. We letterboxed rarely in these years, but the frog was the best symbol to symbolize our family in this time period....

When I got into letterboxing, it was the spring of my freshman year of college, and I was majoring in American Public History and was considering minoring in recreational management. I had big dreams of becoming a historical park ranger at Independence Hall National Park. at that time, I was considering a minor in Recreational Management and decided to take an elective class on Recreation and Leisure. This class was anything but leisurely.  The most ironic part of this class was reading textbooks on leisure instead of experiencing it. It did however have the easiest final that I ever took. We had to try a new leisurely activity and present it to the class. My cohorts were very excited when I decided to practice cake decorating (something that I wasn't good at all. I guess we all start somewhere) and brought in a remanence of a cake with red and green decorations because I was reusing leftover supplies from Christmas. For this class, we had to do something leisurely for an hour and ...