doing a thank you note on the computer

[mckenzie]

We have just had DD's first birthdya and her christening and so i have rather a few thank you notes to write. I thought I might do a comptuerised version and then just personalise each one with a short handwritten postscript.

The templates in Microsoft word are not very inspiring - does anyone have one that they can recommend?

I think I'm rather tired from the weekends events as I cant even string a sentence together properly it seems this morning, let alone a whole thank you note!!

What about

Dear z

Thank you for coming to dd's birthday and christening, it was lovely that so many people celebrated it with us.

Your present (insert it if you want) was much appreciated and very thoughtful. It will be x (used, kept/whatever if you want to get personal about the specific present)

Look forward to seeing you again soon, maybe over the summer/autumn/Christmas

Love

Mckenzie family
PS apologies for typed rather than handwritten note but it's quicker!

Then it doesn't even look like it's not personalised.

thanks www.

My DS1 was 13 last week and has just written his thank yous on the computer for the first time. I'm not sure some of the old biddies will approve but he did write a chatty note and it is better than weeks of strops. Think we have to move with the times and WWW's sounds fine. He has written one to the GPs (my parents) too. They did not phone on his birthday and did not mention it on the weekly duty phone call last night. I am so upset for him (although he's not bothered). They only have my 3 children as grandchildren to remember.

persoanlly i don't like the typed ones - i felt a bit miffed to receive one for a wedding present with our gift just written in.
I agree though that there can be loads to write with little time. when dd2 was born & she and dd2 had loads of presents, i made small cards (4 to an A4 sheet) with a photo of the dds taking up about a quarter of the space then scanned in dd1's writing saying 'Thank You' and printed these out and than handwrote a note on each one. as they were small there wasn't much space to write but at least i felt each one was more personal. did the same with their christmas thank you cards with an updated photo.

it's just a personal preference though i guess and a typed thank you note is better than none at all!

there's nowt so queer as folk Sherbert37. Shame for your children though. I'd have been gutted if my grandparents had missed my birthdya when i was that age.

Mckenzie, fwiw I never send thank yous, I just say it at the time. Neither would I expect them from someone who'd said thank you at the time. You could let yourself off the hook you know!

McKenzie - so would I. They didn't forget totally. Sent me a cheque so I could buy the present as usual. More like a business transaction really.