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11/27/2004 Archived Entry: "pic and writing"

Here's a picture of Tabitha's Little People Christmas set-up. I think it came out really nice though one of the cats likes to act as Godzilla and come crashing through the town.

For the last two months Tabitha has been really pushing to learn cursive. I told her I really wanted her control of the pencil to improve before we tried that. Well, she immediately started writing more and more with lower case and much neater. She obviously has plenty of control so I went ahead and ordered a writing program for her. When I told her yesterday that I ordered it she said, and I quote, "Yay! When will it get here?" LOL I guess she's anxious to get started.

So. The TV. It's big, really, really BIG. My living room now looks much smaller. So I'm letting this be my motivator to get rid of so much "stuff" we have around here. I'm going to go by the flylady rule of keep it only if you use it or love it. If it doesn't fit one of those categories, then it's out. And some of the items in the "love it" category are going into boxes in the garage. There's just too much stuff, and not just the living room. I'm going to start small by going through my kitchen gadgets and dumping whatever I don't use. Then I'll tackle a small, but constanly growing, pile on my desk and then I'm packing up some things from my room. None of that is related directly to the living room, but that room will take some major figuring out and will need to involve both of us. Ideally we need one of those entertainment centers that are made for big screen TVs so we can consolidate some components, but that is not in the near future of our financial plans. I do want to go out and price them though so I know what exactly I need to put aside to get one. Too bad Chris's company no longer sells them, no discount :(

It's going to be a cold, dreary day here, so I don't exactly want to go anywhere, so hopefully I'll get quite a bit done. I will probably go out once Chris gets home, not sure if that's with or without the fam, though.

Oh, I wanted to mention something we picked up for Tabitha's stocking. For a couple weeks now, she's been sleeping with a Koosh slingshot ball. The reason is because she likes how it feels on her cheek. When we were at Target yesterday, she found actual Koosh balls that are larger and don't have the slingshot attachment. So I distracted her and Chris went off and bought it. I'm waiting until Christmas because I don't have many stocking stuffers and this will be perfect, she's going to love it. Now all I have left on my list for her is a hula hoop, Tinkerbell notebook from Disneyland she's been coveting for awhile, poseable bear from Ikea (she added that to her list just last week), a doll family for the dollhouse Santa is bringing her, and pencils from the Hello Kitty store for her stocking. That's it! I'm so happy to be practically done for her. At some point I need to assess my wrapping paper stock and see if I'm good or if I should pick up a few rolls. Probably the latter.