I am just about finished my Christmas cards. I just glued the "face" part of the cards onto the card stock. I think I have done 150 cards or more. It stinks that I can't post pictures. I am hoping that we can get Internet at our house in the new year. Then I'll have to back post a ton of pictures.
Matt left this morning for Medicine Hat for a week. He has some temporary work for now. I don't mind him being gone during the day but I really hate being alone at night. Tanner will be sleeping in our bed while Matt's away. Tanner loves to sleep with us but he's a bit of a bed hog so we don't do the 'family' bed thing. He can sleep with either one of us, but not both of us.
Tanner was so funny the other day. He got $26 for his birthday and Matt was asking him what he was going to get with it. This is the conversation:
Matt: So, what are you going to get with all that money you got for your birthday?
T: (without hesitation) a really cool hot wheels
M: but grandma collins got you 5 new cool hot wheels. pause...Aren't they cool enough?
T: uhhh...no! I need a cooler hot wheels. Or maybe I'll buy a really cool backugan.
As if the toys he got weren't cool enough! I am seriously thinking of having him go through his toys in December and having him fill a box to give away or donate. He has a ridiculous amount of toys. I think we might make this a yearly tradition at Christmas time. I think it will help him to be more giving and generous. He recently broke a friends toy and I told him he would have to choose one of his new birthday toys that he got and give it to his friend. He was really upset about that, but he needs to learn that he can't go around being careless with other people's toys. He has to be respectful. Maybe I'm over-reacting....I don't know. Is this just a "boy" thing or can they learn to be respectful of toys? I'm glad that for Christmas, we got him the Transformers cartoon on DVD and Santa made him a rag quilt. We decided not to get him toys because even though I have asked people not to, they always do buy him toys. Matt has a large family and I have a fair size family that buys lots of toys for him so Matt and I do other things. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one with this problem of excess toy giving. Maybe as he gets older it will calm down a bit. Okay, so that was good to get it off my chest.
Well, I think that's about it for now. As I am telling myself today "chin up, tomorrow is a new day."
Have a good one.
3 years ago
2 comments:
I think that boys can learn to be respectful of others things. They may play a bit "rougher", but it still doesn't mean that you can break other peoples things.
I totally know what you mean about too many toys. I pack up more than half of the boys toys and I cycle through them. Every month or so I pull out a new tote and put the old ones away, and they come back every few months. I find they are more likely to actually play with them that way. I tell people not to buy toys too... doesn't work! I told my Mum that the boys needed new church shirts for Christmas... she doesn't want to get that... she wants to buy toys... grrrrr....
150 Christmas cards!? Yipes!!!!
I know what you mean about the toys. Try packing them all up and seeing how many they actually have! Moving has been like Christmas!
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