What Patience Really, REALLY wants for Christmas or There's no funny like kindergarten girl/big sister funny
Today was the Winter Party at Patience's school. Here are the girls making reindeer sandwiches:
The teacher and I had a little tete-a-tete as the kids went through the fun stations. I mentioned the ink incident. She asked if Patience had shared what Those Boys Did with scissors. I said yes. She was very cute about it.
Then she asked if I had seen Patience's letter to Santa that she wrote in class.
She said it was the funniest letter because...well, see for yourself:
Translation:
A cat and 3 kittens. (She means REAL ones.)
And a dog and puppies. (Again, real ones.)
Bunkbed
And for my sister to calm down.
Please Santa Claus, make my sister calm down.
Love, Patience
She and I laughed and laughed. I got home, read the letter, and laughed and laughed again. Then I had Patience read it to me, and kept my giggles to myself, no mean feat, especially when she added, "Because That Child is way too busy for her own good."
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The teacher and I had a little tete-a-tete as the kids went through the fun stations. I mentioned the ink incident. She asked if Patience had shared what Those Boys Did with scissors. I said yes. She was very cute about it.
Then she asked if I had seen Patience's letter to Santa that she wrote in class.
She said it was the funniest letter because...well, see for yourself:
Translation:
A cat and 3 kittens. (She means REAL ones.)
And a dog and puppies. (Again, real ones.)
Bunkbed
And for my sister to calm down.
Please Santa Claus, make my sister calm down.
Love, Patience
She and I laughed and laughed. I got home, read the letter, and laughed and laughed again. Then I had Patience read it to me, and kept my giggles to myself, no mean feat, especially when she added, "Because That Child is way too busy for her own good."
Copyright 2007 Julie Pippert
Also blogging at:
Using My Words
Julie Pippert REVIEWS: Get a real opinion about BOOKS, MUSIC and MORE
Julie Pippert RECOMMENDS: A real opinion about HELPFUL and TIME-SAVING products
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Comments
(Blogger ate my comment- weird!)
So, will you be adding the same wish on YOUR Santa list?
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Jeanie, every single day I ask this of Santa, God, Jesus, all the Saints in Heaven, my husband, my mother, the child in question, the cashier at Palais Royal last night...you get the gist. ;)
signed,
the one whose sister always wanted her to calm down.
(even 23 years later)
Hahaha!
She is such a little grown up.
What a letter to treasure...
I'm telling you... that kid of yours is something special (not that you needed to be told, but it is nice, isn't it?)
The picture is beautiful - love the matching shirts.
Heidi :)
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Thordora, we get that too. The "keep That Child out of My Room" has begun too.
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Liv, I am LOL but think I will keep that to myself.
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Mayberry, it is pretty hilarious. I think the kicker is that she asked it TWICE and the second time it was so pleading.
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Kathryn, I will let you know but understand I am pretty skeptical LOL.
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Aliki, I do treasure it already but I also feel a teensy of mommy guilt because it is so indicative of how disruptive Persistence can be from Patience's POV and oh I want to do better.
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Tere and PM, thank you...it's pretty classic!
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SciFi dad, I believe she is and so the school keeps telling me, but it doesn't hurt to hear ever. :) I think it's pretty remarkable that she included it.
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Heidi, okay the cute matching deal is SO IRONIC right after I confessed the whole mismatched thing. It's even more ironic that we got those shirts That Night at Target. It's because our next door neighbor has that same little thing and they saw it, it was on clearance, and they wanted to get it to match their little best friend. They also like to match each other. This was NOT something I planned because my sister and I HATED matching. Go figure!!
I think I might have written a similar letter somewhere along the way. Or if I didn't I should have - maybe it would have helped.
Good look with those kittens, btw... and the dogs ... the puppies ...