Merry Drama

Abbie has had an interesting Christmas, filled with some drama.  We started the morning with the announcement that she didn't get very many presents (which she wasn't happy about).  Of course, this caused us to launch into the standard, "Do you know how lucky you are?  Some kids don't have anything." lecture.  Also, it makes me tempted to outlaw all presents for the foreseeable future, but I know that I won't really do this, so I haven't hit her with the empty threat.  Instead, I have already told her that we need to start thinking about what we could do next year to help those less fortunate.

As discussed in the previous post, Abbie did get her pillow pet that she wanted.  She requested the unicorn because that it what her friend at school has (see below).

She then informed me that she could never bring it into her room because her other animals would laugh at it and say that unicorns aren't real.  I told her to give it a try anyway.  Sure enough, she reported, they laughed.  Then I told her to go back and explain to the other animals how that hurts the unicorn's feelings, etc.  She did, but then she came back with lovey cow and lovey bear and announced that lovey cow had stuck his tongue out and lovey bear had still laughed, so they needed to go on time-out.  Then she announced that "They're friends and they copy each other in bad ways, so they need to have separate time-out locations."  So, lovey cow is currently on time-out in our room and lovey bear is currently on time-out downstairs.  Then, I suggested that maybe unicorn and twilight turtle would hit it off as friends, so off she went to introduce them to each other.  All is well that ends well, I suppose, but I am really getting the sense that she needs to get back to school so that she has something to occupy her brain other than all this drama.