Don't you love it when life hands you teachable moments? This is how we spend the beginning of every year. Writing those thank you notes gently puts us back into a semblance of a routine. One of these days, I'll have them address the envelopes as well. I'm the one who usually forgets to do that and ends up sending the thank you notes in February. The best laid plans...
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We start the year this way as well. K learned to address envelopes at a young age as I am a procrastinator. Things were more likely to be mailed in a timely fashion if they were waiting by the door, addressed and stamped. Hope your holiday was wonderful and you had some fun times with the kids and your dh.
We do this too :) I actually bought some rubber stamps for them to decorate the letters with this year ;)
my Mum had a mean mean rule when we were growing up which I have continued... you can't use your gifts till you've written the note... it *does* get the job done, in a hurry.
I have just discovered your blog and I love it -- the comics are very cool (btw)
I teach at a private Catholic School and I found this post amusing because this is exactly what we did today in 3rd grade boys computer class!
I took the kids to one of my sites to learn about thank yous and then they each composed one (on their computers). At the end of class I asked, "Which element of the Thank You note did we do improperly?" They thought for a moment and then the proverbial light bulb went off in one little boy's head, "We used a word processor!!" All the kids nodded in agreement.
I said , "Yes, but now you have composed your notes, you have thought them out and spell checked them - you all did great jobs. All that is left is to write it in your own handwriting!"
A few groused, some smiled, most just seemed quite pleased with themselves. MANY of these "accelerated students" had never been required to write a thank you note!!
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