My daughter was out sick on Friday, so she brought home a Mother’s Day thingie for me today. And it’s really very sweet.
But you know what’s even better? Look at the improvement in her handwriting. Most of y’all know my daughter is PDD-NOS (pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified) and has some fine-motor issues.
First, last year’s, with the handprint.
Then this year’s. Last year, she would have flatly refused to write this much, and there would have been a major meltdown if you pressed the issue. This year, she was smiling and happy to give this to me. Now *that’s* a good mother’s day gift.
By the way, her name is not “Melissa,” although that’s how she’s been signing all her schoolwork for the past month or so. Nobody knows why she chose that name. She volunteered to me today that “Melissa is my school name.”
She may not write her Nobel acceptance speech out longhand. But then again… you never know!
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