L's heart

L has such a sweet giving heart. When she found out I was going to deliver food to a friend who had dislocated her hip, she wanted to make her a story and a coloring page.

Here's my friend's thank you note to Elodie:

Dear Elodie,
Thank you so much for your thoughtful picture that cheered me up so much!
However, I especially liked your story about the 4 Pigs!
I liked that you gave me their names. Your handwriting is very neat, and I noticed that you paid attention to your spacing and used your first capital letter at the beginning of each sentence and remembered your punctuation mark. That is what good writers do!
You are a very creative writer and your illustration really made the story come to life. I hope you will keep up the good writing. You are already an author and your story cheered me up! Thank you so much!

ideas for L's Christmas

Hi parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts & uncles, and friends...

By no means does the fact that you got this email imply that you have to get L any gift but I just wanted to error on the side of inclusive rather than exclusive, especially since I'm terrible at these Christmas list things.

Anyhow, I know some people have already asked me for L's Christmas list so I thought I'd better get on that now. I've tried to update her list with a variety of things and prices and I've marked the priority of the item and made comments on the right-hand side of the list so you might want to sort the list by priority. The #1 thing she would REALLY like is the Vtech Kidizoom Plus Digital Camera. Feel free to email amongst yourselves (don't forget to leave me off the email unless you want me to know) who's getting what so there are no duplicates, b/c of course being the cheap woman I am, I don't want anyone to pay more for an item than they have to so don't feel obligated to buy at amazon...besides sometimes it's just easier to buy stuff at a real store.

• Click here to go to her wish list.

• The other thing on her list is money...either earmarked for her savings account or to be used in conjunction with other monetary gifts towards toys or clothes either now or later. Honestly, she already has toys and doesn't need a whole lot right now, so for those who don't care money might be better since we can ration it out over time.
  

She doesn't need any clothes.

We got her a wooden train set and some kitchen pots/pans/utensils for Christmas. She's already opened the train set and loves it (we told her it was for Christmas). I haven't gotten around to washing all the kitchen stuff yet so she's yet to open that. We didn't want her to have to wait extra months to play with stuff that she could be playing with now.

Thanks for reading my long-winded email :)

Love,
E & D