My next door neighbor has the art of "thank you" down pat. She sends me the sweetest notes in the mail just for a recipe, a gesture, a book. She never lets any kindness go unrewarded and for that I thank her.
Today most kids and adults alike do not bother to send thank you notes. It is a lost art. Brides and grooms never send thank you cards for gifts received, graduates ignore the money or gifts they were given and children never write thank you for money received.
Not me, I was raised by a mother who found importance in thanking those who gift to you. We always had to sit down after Christmas and write thank you's for the gifts we had received and she would mail them for us.
Bo and Jill were taught the same. It wasn't an easy task to accomplish, it was a chore but one they had to do for years. At times I have made Ian and Carter Dean write thank you notes for gifts from my friends.
Sometimes I forgot I admit and it makes me mad when I see someone that I should have sent a thank you to and I have to apologize profusely for my failure.
The hardest thank you's I have ever written were the ones for the kindness, flowers, food etc. that we received after Bo and Lori were killed as well as after D died. Those took months, but it was important to me to express my deep gratitude to those who had and still love me enough to reach out in anyway.
Times are changing people say, but manners shouldn't. So, your Christmas, Birthday and Happy's may be changing too. Let me just say "Thank You" for not expecting another gift from some of us. Our gift giving manners are changing too.
I hope you enjoy, and remember your previous gifts fondly because they probably won't be arriving this year.
Thank You !
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