Monday, January 11, 2010

Thank you notes

I grew up writing thank you notes to everyone who ever gave us anything or did anything for us. I have been SO bad at making my kids do this...BUT this year I am going to try harder to teach them to be thankful - which I know they are already, but they need to let the giver know how thankful they are.

We are working on our Christmas thank you notes now and hopefully I can get them done before Spirit's birthday hits and we have to start those too! (Since his birthday is tomorrow, I am guessing I am in deep doo-doo!) NOW, I understand why I have been so bad at getting thank you's out, we are hardly done with Christmas thank you's and have to start thinking of Spirit's birthday thank you's!

During the Christmas gift opening I tried to capture the kids opening and showing off their gifts and then the days following I took pictures of them wearing the clothes or playing with the gifts. Then I printed them out using my color printer in 4x6, instead of cutting it down to size I just left it on the full page (i didn't use glossy photo paper, just a higher quality white paper) and had the kids write their thank you on the bottom.


BELOW is a picture of Spirit writing his thank you's (this was taken while he was writing the 1st thank you, the smile wasn't as big by the 6th thank you note because his friends were outside playing and I made him sit at the table to write these!)


[Unfortunately no pictures of the actual thank
you notes, my camera is sick and I
don't know what is wrong with it.
Sometimes it won't take the pictures,
sometimes they are blurry and sometimes
it flashes but then won't store the picture! :-(
So, I tried to get a picture of these thank you notes
and not one would turn out... sorry!]

1 comment:

Ruby Red Slippers said...

I was brought up doing thank you notes, also.
I got some for my kids where they just have to sign their names, and add what they got-very easy to do-