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.
I love Kiki. She cracks me up. You have to admire her rhetoric.
I love Kiki. She cracks me up. You have to admire her rhetoric.
Eek! Since I come from a small family (2 kids) and I have a brother, we always had our own rooms. So, even in my little house, my kids have their own rooms. (The house consists of my room, their two rooms, bathroom, tiny kitchen, hall and living/dining/vardagas room. Oh… and as a present my mother added a huge huge sewing room on the living room end of the house about a year ago.) My kids are spoiled, I guess!
Eek! Since I come from a small family (2 kids) and I have a brother, we always had our own rooms. So, even in my little house, my kids have their own rooms. (The house consists of my room, their two rooms, bathroom, tiny kitchen, hall and living/dining/vardagas room. Oh… and as a present my mother added a huge huge sewing room on the living room end of the house about a year ago.) My kids are spoiled, I guess!
Get her a yurt. She can live in the back yard.
Get her a yurt. She can live in the back yard.
Also, it’s fun to say yurt.
Yurt yurt yurt.
Also, it’s fun to say yurt.
Yurt yurt yurt.
I love this on so many levels. Hee!
I love this on so many levels. Hee!
::giggle::
::giggle::
I take it she’s feeling better then?
I knew someone when I was in school with similar sounding symptoms which turned out to be iron deficiency. I also know some adult women who periodically suffer with that, for the normal sort of reason which happens roughly once every 28 days, resulting in loss of blood and, I assume, haemoglobin or somesuch. Iron tablets[1] fix it, or eating food high in iron. Of course, I don’t know if that could apply in Kiki’s case, but the iron deficiency isn’t necessarily caused by that anyway.
Just my $0.02.
[1] tablets with iron in, that is, not tablets MADE of iron 🙂
I take it she’s feeling better then?
I knew someone when I was in school with similar sounding symptoms which turned out to be iron deficiency. I also know some adult women who periodically suffer with that, for the normal sort of reason which happens roughly once every 28 days, resulting in loss of blood and, I assume, haemoglobin or somesuch. Iron tablets[1] fix it, or eating food high in iron. Of course, I don’t know if that could apply in Kiki’s case, but the iron deficiency isn’t necessarily caused by that anyway.
Just my $0.02.
[1] tablets with iron in, that is, not tablets MADE of iron 🙂
This letter was written several weeks ago. I just got around to posting it. Kiki is still sick. We haven’t heard results on blood work yet, but iron deficiency is one of the things that they are testing for.
This letter was written several weeks ago. I just got around to posting it. Kiki is still sick. We haven’t heard results on blood work yet, but iron deficiency is one of the things that they are testing for.