Gosh, I recall having a moment just like that. And writing a whole page of Ws just for fun. It was really the only pleasant moment in all of 5th grade.
It's a Ramona Quimby experience for sure -- we just read a couple of Ramona books, and they were like the story of this child's interior life. Ramona writing all her Qs to look like cats . . . every page of this child's handwriting book is extensively illustrated, and letters are frequently much embellished, because writing is no fun unless it's art, apparently.
Josie likes to decorates the dots on the i's in her name...am I supposed to just let her do it? All the bubble letters and curlies are starting to get to me!
Hooray for those happy moments! And I'm so glad she shares a birthday with Mom! Crispina has such a glad little heart full of wonder. I like to think of that when I'm missing Mother.
VA: I'd just let her decorate. She'll get tired of it once writing isn't such an end in itself. And if you haven't read the Ramona books yet (by Beverly Cleary), do. Ramona is SUCH a real little girl, and she's always experimenting with writing her name -- making cats out of her Qs, making a sparkler out of the up-curve of the y at the end of her name when she writes it in cursive, because her teacher calls her "a little sparkler." So I think it's probably a natural little-girl thing to do, and better to love writing . . .
Carlie -- all the older people in the house are still laughing. Those Ws made our collective day.
And yes, my Redblur friend, I think of your mother often, and pray for her and your dad with all my beloved dead daily. And it's true, her birthday-mate is relishing life and learning all the time.
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Gosh, I recall having a moment just like that. And writing a whole page of Ws just for fun. It was really the only pleasant moment in all of 5th grade.
It's a Ramona Quimby experience for sure -- we just read a couple of Ramona books, and they were like the story of this child's interior life. Ramona writing all her Qs to look like cats . . . every page of this child's handwriting book is extensively illustrated, and letters are frequently much embellished, because writing is no fun unless it's art, apparently.
Josie likes to decorates the dots on the i's in her name...am I supposed to just let her do it? All the bubble letters and curlies are starting to get to me!
Hee hee! Wonderful. Love the small joys.
Hooray for those happy moments! And I'm so glad she shares a birthday with Mom! Crispina has such a glad little heart full of wonder. I like to think of that when I'm missing Mother.
VA: I'd just let her decorate. She'll get tired of it once writing isn't such an end in itself. And if you haven't read the Ramona books yet (by Beverly Cleary), do. Ramona is SUCH a real little girl, and she's always experimenting with writing her name -- making cats out of her Qs, making a sparkler out of the up-curve of the y at the end of her name when she writes it in cursive, because her teacher calls her "a little sparkler." So I think it's probably a natural little-girl thing to do, and better to love writing . . .
Carlie -- all the older people in the house are still laughing. Those Ws made our collective day.
And yes, my Redblur friend, I think of your mother often, and pray for her and your dad with all my beloved dead daily. And it's true, her birthday-mate is relishing life and learning all the time.
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