Catalogs

My daughter is excited about Christmas.   She is wanting to help with just about anything and one thing she knows we need to do is look at the catalogs we have from the mail and determine if anything in them might be a good present idea for someone or be something she or her brother would like on their wish lists. 

She's been wanting to help with the catalogs for days now.   Tonight I went up to her room while she put up her laundry and told her about the things in the catalogs.   She had a lot of wants.   I told her too many things on your wish list and you won't get them all and you might not get the things you most want, so we need to rank them and consider how many things to add. 

She was fine with all that and just had a great time hearing about all the possible things available to but. But it's a very constrained world she's in in this way.   She can't see all the items in the catalogs; all she can do is listen to what we tell her are in there.  

And there is no time to tell her about all the things our eyes glance through in the span of a two seconds, thinking, "nothing on these pages" and move on.   So many words to describe what we see so quickly and easily.   

But she was happy.   And she will retain every single bit of it too.  She is a vault when it comes to memory, that's for sure. 

The Big Boy Tiny Girl Laundry Difference:  My daughter doesn't want to do her laundry, but she does it and takes time to do a good job.   Her brother fights it and puts it off and dawdles and then gets in trouble, even though he was given multiple opportunities to get it done himself, encouraged to.