I was secretly hoping for a chore slip this morning, needing to get off on the right foot and all that. Shocking, the sense of accomplishment I felt after spending fifteen minutes in my own closet.
It goes like this: my closet is actually in the spare bedroom, as we chose the sweetest (and smallest) bedroom for ourselves. Whenever I go through the kids' outgrown clothes or toys, the bags & boxes go in the spare room. Whenever company comes to stay, the bags and boxes get stashed in my closet. Get the picture?
My closet looks a teeny bit better now, and I've put the slip back in the jar so I can finish up another day.
And thank you, Darin, for the unexpected nudge this morning. I'm in favor of keeping myself accountable!
I LOVE all of your handwriting styles and I am green with envy! I work with little kids and we have been having many discussions about the proper way to hold a writing utensil. Most of the children are doing a 4 finger hold and I even have one kid that said "I use 6 fingers!" (his grip is so bad, he pretty much does use 6 fingers). I was scolded as a child for having a horrible grip (my thumb bends backward) and I was forced to use one of those 3 sided pencil grips to retrain my hand. Many of the gals I went to high school with had cute girly handwriting and very odd grips and I had/have horrible "scratchy" writing and a "proper grip". I'm convinced that half of handwriting is practice and the other half is grip. I know you practice a lot, so, how do you hold your pen? Any way we could see a picture of your grip?
Posted by: Elly | Jan 08, 2010 at 03:44 AM