Day: February 27, 2007

As part of preparation for parent/teacher conferences, Kiki was asked to write a letter to her parents. It made me laugh. With her permission I am entering it here. I’m leaving the original spellings and grammar intact.

Kiki’s Letter:

Mom, I was thinking since I am almost 12 and becoming a young lady, I think I deserve someting. Like more personal space, and to be exact my own room.

Firstly, I deserve my own room because I am going to Junoir-High in August and will need a lot more space. I will need privacy, and way way more space for my stuff. I refuse to throw out stuff because I like all my stuff. Also I will need more, way more closet space.

Secondly, I’ve been nice to Gleek and we haven’t goten into any really bad arguments over nothing recently. I haven’t yelled at Gleek because she drops stuff onto my bed…yet. If I am going to have friends over to play I will need to have my own room to impress them.

Lastly, I’ve been good and recently done my homework happily and the Twili Poster incident is the cause for most of my homework unhappieness.

In conclusion, I have been a good girl. Take pity on your pre-teen. Gleek and I haven’t fought in a while; I need more space, so please. From the bottom of my heart, please? If not a room than a hacky sack.

She got the hackey sack.

One day I had Kiki along with me when I had to wait for a prescription. We sat right in front of shelves full of shiny knick-knacks. Kiki loves that sort of thing, and I agree that many of them were beautiful. I could just see her starting to build up a desire to save all her money and buy everything on the shelf. Then she would go look at the prices and wail because of the impossibility of the task. In order to head off the pending emotional upset, I leaned over to Kiki and said “If I had the money, I’d buy you that unicorn right there.” Kiki smiled and studied the shelves with renewed interest to pick out something that she would buy for me if she had the money. We continued to exchange virtual gifts until the prescription was ready. Then we left the store completely happy and satisfied.

Sometimes we can only give thoughts even though we’d like to be able to give more. Tomorrow is Howard’s birthday. I have a list of things that I would dearly love to be able to give him, but which we can’t afford.

Howard, If I had the money, I’d give you a digital camera so that you could take good pictures of your minis (this one.) I’d buy piles more minis for you to paint. I’d replace all your over-large bottles of paint with smaller ones so that more stuff could fit into your kit. I’d get you a big screen, flat panel tv. I’d buy you your new glasses. I’d give you a microwave with a turn table. And I would raid your wishlist until it was empty.

There are so many things I wish I could give. I love you.