Can somebody please tell me if there is something wrong with me or is it the world?  I always, always send thank you’s … I usually write and mail a note immediately or at least within a few days of the event … when I’m invited over someone’s home for dinner, when I get a gift, if someone does something nice for me … every opportunity, I send a thank you note.  This past holiday season, I made family-portrait ornaments for many of my family members … in some cases there received two or three ornaments, in other cases they received six or eight … in many cases they were photos of family members who have passed on.  The process of making them is not difficult, however, it is both labor and time intensive … it’s a decoupage process on wood heart shapes ranging from 2 to 4 inches in size.  They are little treasures … and quite beautiful … I gave them to eighteen people.  These are not people who I typically exchange gifts with … I just made them because I thought they would love to receive them.  The ones who received them in person raved about them and said ‘thank you’ … the ones I mailed I still have not heard from.  This is my problem.  I believe when you are handed anything, you automatically say ‘thank you’ … to me that is not sufficient.  Am I wrong to feel that a handwritten thank you note was appropriate?   As of today, two weeks after Christmas, I have not received one note of thanks … not a one.  In my heart I feel that they are all inconsiderate and ungrateful people and I really hate feeling that way, because these are all people that I love a lot, but I can’t help it.  This same thing happened last year and the year before that … I keep expecting a note, but it never comes.  I don’t seem to be getting the message.   I’m wondering if they even appreciate the time, energy and talent it takes to make these things … is this a generation gap issue … or am just too needy???