Family Night: Thank You Notes

Despite my mother's rather scrupulous training in my youth, I am an inadequate writer of thank-you notes. I have decided I dare not hold my head up high in the world any longer and am turning over a new leaf.

Tonight's Family Home Evening was dedicated to the writing of thank you notes. After a (very) brief lesson on gratitude, I scattered gaudy art supplies all over the counter and the kids went to work.

{Good luck deciphering that tiny writing, Grannie.}

{Isabelle takes painstaking care in her crafts.}

Long after everyone else was finished and off to play upstairs, she was laboriously poring over her notes. She seems to be a project-perfectionist. It's so cute; she takes such satisfaction in the end result--and such delight in the process!

{Mimi drew her thank you notes.}

Each note had a rendering of the giver and Mimi together in joy. She had fun but when the last scraggly-haired person was finished, she jumped off her barstool and demanded to be put in her jammies. She was fast asleep in 10 minutes.