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We also don’t do thank you notes for Christmas! Didn’t even cross my mind until this post! I do have to call my one grandma since we didn’t get to see her at Christmas due to all of us being sick and having to leave town early,, so thanks for the reminder for that!

We always write thank you cards, even for the people we open gifts with - it's how we were both raised and what we want to continue. DD's birthday is also in December though so we have a lot to write. I do one combined note for people who give her a gift for both. But we also had DD's first friend party this year - so that added more. Now that she is 5 I have her write the name of the person, thank you, and love, name - I then fill in the rest. But I swear it takes SOOOO much longer that way. We had 24 (or 25?) to write for DD and I had another 10 for myself (and joint gifts that DH and I received).

For me I just had to sit down and force myself to do them. I don't let myself use any of my new gifts until I get the thank yous done, which is a really great motivator!

@catgirl: same approach here (except never that many, you deserve a medal!) - we also have to get it done before 2 January bdays. I tell myself that it’s good writing practice in addition to the focus on gratitude - for my newly 5yo he just needs practice making letters and words, for my almost 8yo she can work on proper letter format and thinking of something nice to say.

We don’t do thank you notes for Christmas. Our family is out of town and we usually talk to them Christmas Day and thank them over the phone. A couple people we texted.

I don’t really write holiday thank yous. I did have my 6 year old write a couple to people who sent her a lot but mostly I text saying thank you (a lot of long distance family sent gifts). For birthdays I try to push her to write more- like @catgirl: said it takes so much longer when she writes them! But her notes were really cute this year- like my aunt sent her a bunch of clothes and toys and her note said: thanks for all the stuff. It was from the heart for sure

For my 4 yo who can’t write yet I just text thanks only. Bday I wrote them.

I'm hot and cold with them. I was raise you can't play with the toy until you write the thank you note but the kids aren't old enough to write their own yet. My mom doesn't even send them half the time anymore.

I try to intentionally thank individuals at Christmas or send them a thank you text with a picture of the kids using whatever they sent. For my grandparents I definitely send thank yous cards because that's their generation's thing.

Oy I keep thinking about these but between work, sick kids, preparing for baby’s arrival and a January birthday I am spent. I focus on friends first and then will do family last.