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I stink at Christmas cards. I dread the thought of writing them out and sending them each year. I pretty much stopped altogether after a period of wishy washy one year I send them one year I don't. Now I just call when I get a card from someone, tell them what a loser I am, thank them for the card and chat. I'd rather catch up on the phone anyhow.

We have a tree, it was a fiasco this year, darn thing kept falling over. DH finally allowed me to put up colored lights because our white lights finally broke after 12 years.

Not much under the tree and it's probably going to stay that way. We dodged a bullet, DH was scheduled to have last day at the end of December. He just got an offer letter today to start a new job in January.

We feel very lucky and are also thinking of those who are facing adversity in these difficult economic times.

It has been nice how the girls have reacted to being told there wouldn't be as much "stuff" this year. They were so cool about it. Warmed my heart.

Well, I got a job lined up for when my current one ends; we got one relative in a good nursing home last week; another relative is finally settled with a catheter that works; bills are paid; and my term paper is almost done .

I was feeling pretty good until Wren reminded me that I have to get a tree and buy presents .

We decided not to buy a tree two weeks ago. (Mr W would undoubtedly pull it over. ) Does that count?

Hey it definitely counts. So you can smile big and say me are done!

I have been taking Santa Pics all morning long for the community Breakfast with Santa. Now I get to upload all of them. :P Someone remind me not to volunteer anymore! But it was fun and of course my kiddo would have nothing to do with Santa. We could not get a single pic. Would expect nothing less from the munchkin.

I remember friends with bright little onew who would cut the very top off a tree (they happened to have them on their farm) and stick it in the very corner of the room - they also had those acoustic tiles for a ceiling and hung ornaments delightfully from holes all around the tree. worked for them!

I am happy for all those that posted they got jobs after endings.

Best wishes to all.

Ren

Congrats on all you've accomplished, acs! It sounds to me like a tree and gifts are gravy this year. Pat yourself on the back!

Thanks Wren!

I second Kriston, acs! You've earned a well deserved break! Enjoy the rest of the season.

Bursting with joy here!!!!! Miss 7 got her school report on Friday. It was pretty typical for a gifted kid - no effort, little interest and fairly good achievement But... I started doing a mums and maths program that teaches mums the primary school maths curriculum. It does so in a way that helps and empowers mums to teach their gifted girls. I've loved it. The facilitator assured me that if I worked with Miss 7 for just 1 hr a week that I would see a noticeable shift in her achievement level in school. And voila! It worked! She's gone from a perfectly average maths student to a high achiever - with maths being her best subject!!! Now that I can see the difference I can make at home, the whole school situation seems less daunting (and far less important!). Just goes to show that you really are your child's first teacher - and for those gifted kids that can't quite get it together in the classroom, you're they're second and third grade teacher too!

Celebrating small steps, jojo