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12/07/2004 Archived Entry: "eagerness"

Tabitha's handwriting program arrived today and she demanded we start it immediately. I read through the manual to get the concept of how the method should be taught and we went ahead and did the pre-lesson. She doesn't like how short the lessons are, but I've convinced her it's the best way for her to learn it. She's just so impatient, but she's very happy to finally get started.

I made great headway in our Christmas cards today. I'm waiting for a few addresses from people and I also need to put our return address on all of them. Plus I'm enclosing a pic of Tabitha for people who I think might care to receive one so I need to get those printed tomorrow while Tabs and I are out and about. We'll be doing her Christmas shopping tomorrow, meaning gifts to family from her. I think we'll both also get our hair cut. I'm just getting her's styled around the front, but mine will probably lose a bit of length in order to get it nice and healthy looking again. It's finally long enough where I'm ready to get it layered without it having to be what I consider short. Right now it goes past my waist, but my ends are a mess and I don't actually look that great with all one length hair. We're going to the kids' salon, but they do parents too. Hopefully it will turn out well, though I'll admit to being nervous as always when I let someone near my hair with scissors.

Back to the Christmas cards though, Tabitha was very intent on sending her own cards this year. I explained to her that we send cards from our family to other families and not individual people within each family. She wasn't pleased to learn that. So we came up with a compromise. For people on her list, she drew a picture with a saying on the inside left side of the card. She also signed her own name to quite a few of the cards, though not all of them. I didn't bother having her sign her name for cards that are going to my friends or people she doesn't really know. I also got her Christmas postcards to give out to friends in Daisies and hula class. She was happy to be a part of it all and worked on all of them last night and today.

I'm anxious to start wrapping. Last year I did a little every night after Tabitha was asleep because Chris worked all nights. This year he's home every night and I don't think to do any wrapping. Actually, he won't be home Thursday due to school, so I'll definitely get some done then. I don't have tons for Tabitha this year, unlike last year, but what I did get her I know she wants and will love. I won't wrap the gifts from her though, she wants to do that herself.