Whew- hew! To all who
hung through birthday installments
one , two, even, three.
Then, there were the posts
all about the planning, too!
So many details!
Boy! I'm glad that's through.
Even though you still came back,
no doubt, you are too!
With that behind us
there's just one more thing to do...
Say "Thank You", of course.
I love stationary --thank you cards, invitations, note cards, lined envelopes, etc. If it's personalized, customized, and paper, I LOVE it!!!hung through birthday installments
one , two, even, three.
Then, there were the posts
all about the planning, too!
So many details!
Boy! I'm glad that's through.
Even though you still came back,
no doubt, you are too!
With that behind us
there's just one more thing to do...
Say "Thank You", of course.
I also (secretly) enjoy writing thank you cards as if they were penned by my son. (My two-year-old son...) I write them as I imagine he would talk to another toddler, print and use big letters, and even sign them with "Your Pal, A----".
If I had received something like this before I had a child, I would have rolled my eyes and pretended to gag. I would have passed it around the table at happy hour and made all my childless, single friends read it and they would have gagged, too.
I realize it's dorky. It's silly. It's clearly very obnoxious (even though all of my mommy friends do it, too), but nothing amuses me more. Fortunately, I get to write plenty of thank you cards following the windfall that was my son's birthday!Ha-Ha, and you thought I really wouldn't bring up my kid's birthday ever again... Okay, last time. I promise.
So 'fess up. Are you obnoxious, too?
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22 comments:
You & I might be related. I adore personalized stationery. I have a drawer full of it for me & the tyke. It's an obsession. I cannot stop.
And, I know what you mean about the never-ending b-day. This week is birthday week for us...and his bday isn't even until Sunday.
Man do I wish you were in my burb! I have the same problem, I admit it. :O
It didn't used to bother me but it drives my husband nuts when people write letters in their kids' voices. So much so that he rants on and on about it and then I get annoyed because he just won't stop going on. So it isn't that I dislike it. I just dislike it when we get one and my husband gets hold of it. :)
Happy Friday.
Love stationery myself. In fact, I just bought new note cards today.
I have so much stationary it's a little embarrassing. I have some with my first name on it, some with my whole name on it, some with my family's names on it, . . . well, you get the idea. I have some for all occasions.
Happy Friday!
yeah i do love stationery.
i especially loved baby notecards with my children's names on them -- because when their names were printed on something for the first time, they were REAL ;-)
You're just having some creative fun. :) Who said obnoxious?
i, too, love stationary. i love to look at it, and take it out of it's box/wrapper and feel it and imagine the lovely letters i could write. and... well, that's the problem. i never get around to actually writing - in my own voice or my kids!!
Hey, I'm impressed your writing thank you notes because in my neck of the woods that has become a lost art. No one does it except me. Drives me insane!
I've gotten really out of the habit of writing thank yous.I need to start up. Maybe I need some nice new stationary.
I am a paper and pen crazy. And Thank You's are very important to me. I take great joy in making them, for whatever occasion. If I may say so myself, I am offended when I don't get a Thank You for a gift I sent or something. It doesn't have to be fancy, but at least let me know you received it and tell me you like it, EVEN IF YOU DON'T. Great Ku!
i do that too -- even the baby notes, i write from the kid. dorky but fun!
I love pretty stationery. Love it!
My three boys birthdays are all within a month of each other so I know about ongoing birthday celebrations. It gets tiring.
I just got the funniest thank you note from a friend's eleven year old: Thank you very much for the helmet. I really need to protect these brains.
Will keep up the "obnoxious" thank yous for my kiddos til they can write their own.
Both kids have the same first initial--I grabbed a couple sets of cool monogrammed cards (Target, clearance, $2!) for their thank yous. I can do cutesy thanks, but I draw the line at cutesy cards!
Writing ‘thank-yous’ can
be as fun as receiving
them … especially
when using some cool
stationery that has been
personalized!
Hugs and blessings,
My Haiku Friday posts this week are:
Joyful Burst of Color and
Of Oddities and Change
Guilty! I wrote all my son's cards as if "from" him.
My daughter writes her own now which is awesome: "Thank you for the Polye Pockits." "Thank you for the 100 peyeis puzel."
Totally...Now I make her write some of it and sign them too...
I am obnoxious about my kids, and I write as though my son were speaking all the time (he just turned one) so you are definitely not alone.
Funny, cute! I can't remember ever doing this so I found it all very new and wish I hadn't missed my chance!
I don't like writing thank you notes in any form or fashion... but I LOVE receiving them from "little guys" in their voices. :)
Before i had kids, i wrote thank you notes from my dog.
Not kidding.
I never knew writing a note in your child's voice would be considered dorky until I read a magazine column decrying the practice. WhatEVER. I think it's cute!
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