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September 2011 Moms
manda26
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Thank you cards for birthday gifts?
manda26
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Who is sending out thank you cards for their LO's?
If so, how are you doing this exactly?
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Re: Thank you cards for birthday gifts?
This. I'm actually not done because I've been slacking, but I already have written out what to write on them. Each one is different and written by M.
Honestly I don't think its a big deal not to, but DHs cousin loudly announced that she would write down what the gifts were so that I could know what to write for thank you notes. So...that pretty much made the decision for me!
I dont think I ever did as a kid, and I don't remember getting them from other people either. But maybe as a first bday since everyone there was our friends (and family of course) its necessary. And apparently in "my circle" aka DHs family, it is necessary. My friends wouldn't have cared less.
Oh and I wrote them from B too. It was actually easier I think!
Hmmm, well maybe some of them weren't really in the mood to buy your kid a gift.....
I just wrote out all of our's for DD. Literally took like 2 minutes per note--and that includes addressing the envelope.
Cuz I'm a dork like that. Haha. Or just really thankful. My circle absolutely does Ty cards, fwiw.
This.
well attendance surely wasn't mandatory either. I was never not going to send thank yous even though I have only once ever received one in my life from a childs party (not even from someone in this 'circle').
I'm only sending a few. We opened up gifts late in the party, so not all the guests were still there. I'll send the ones I didn't get to open in front of them, and those that did cards/monetary gift, because we didn't open those there either.
I think we'll probably do some sort of photo card, though I haven't decided how i want to yet.
I send thank you notes to older relatives (like my grandparents) and anyone not present when the gift was open (so they know I got it). So I did not send a note to my sister since she was there. My husband is a slacker and still hasn't sent his grandma one - our policy is he writes them for his family/friends, I write them for mine.
I never thought of writing from my DD's perspective. They are signed from myself, DH, and DD.
Always thank you notes in my house. Always. It's just the way I was raised.
SIL gave Tatum some pretty personalized note cards for Christmas, so I'm using those. They're just 4x6 cards, unfolded, on shimmery paper with little hearts and her first name on top. So I'm writing quick little personal notes. So far I've only done the ones for a couple of my friends who gave her gifts, and have yet to do the family ones from her party on Saturday.
ETA: and I'm writing them from Tatum, not from me. I did that for most of the TYs that I wrote for gifts she received when she was born, too.
This. I may do it anyway though because everyone was so generous and DH and I were overwhelmed by it.
I was not raised to write TY notes, I didn't even write them for high school or college graduation gifts!
But as an adult, I do appreciate them and have made it a habit. I plan to have photo cards made from his birthday session next week and then I'll write a little note from A.
Yeah, but they did. And they brought a gift. A handwritten note saying thanks shouldn't be a big deal.
This. I've always written notes from the kids after they received gifts from their birthdays. Every single gift, every single year. Whether or not I was ever in the mood. It would be bananas not to in my opinion. By a certain age, the kids sign their names themselves. And my oldests can write the notes now. But I address and mail them.