All I want for Christmas is a spelling tutor

I know I said I put a family ban on Christmas list-making until a week after Thanksgiving (which, by the time I figured out how to load this picture, it IS!)- but I found this list made by Molly (age 9) and I couldn't resist posting it - for posterity's sake. When she's a Rhodes scholar one day...or a homeschool Mom (same difference....), she will think this is really cute. Right now, she's embarrassed by it - but I told my kids..."You're the children of a blogger now. Say bye-bye to your privacy and dignity."

And just in case one of her older siblings reads this, and wants to get her something but needs help deciphering - here's her edited list:

doll clothes

Barbie (I love the way she couldn't decide which way to make the b..so she picked both :)

clothes

Rollerblad(e)s

locket (I can only assume the ones with a star by them mean she REALLY wants them)

soundtrack for Shrek the 3rd (is this a sign of the video age when a child can spell Shrek, but not clothes?)

a ring

doll house people

Happy shopping, pepel! - Debbie