Letters from Kim – #2
by Kym on September 21, 2009
Dear Emma,
Stop it with the growing taller thing, okay? It’s seriously freaking me out. I can hardly believe I have a daughter who’s old enough to go to school, but add to that the fact you’re as tall as some nine year olds and it really sets my head to spinning. Also, could I have just a few more details about this whole kindergarten experience? Exclamations of “It was SO fun! We played LOTS of games!” aren’t satisfactory responses to the two dozen questions I asked you about your day. Elaborate. Please.
I love watching you grow up and all but I still want you to stop. I’m really complicated and grown up like that.
Love you!
Mommy
Dear Claira,
Some day you’ll learn the expression “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” I want to add an extension onto that. Don’t pulverize the organs of the person who has the hand that will one day feed you. Please. Mommy needs some sleep.
Love you to bits (so please stop kicking mine!),
Mommy
p.s. Can’t wait to meet you, but we’re aiming for another seven weeks, m’kay?
Dear Neil,
I would take on ten times as much Claira-kicking if it could make your life easier right now. It seems so wrong to me that you’re working so hard and I have to lay around doing as little as possible all day. Please don’t hate me for this, because I love you more than ever right now. Remind me of this however many months from now when I’m starting to slack off again, okay?
Husband of the Year award? Totally yours. Love you Sweetheart.
Love,
Your Couch-Ridden Wife
Dear Becca,
You have got to stop cracking me up, little girl. I’m pretty sure the whole bed-rest/take it easy thing is seriously messed with whenever I indulge in a fit of laughter. Heck, the kind of laughter you inspire is practically exercise!
When your Nona asked how you wanted your sandwich cut and you responded acerbically, “With a knife“, I just about asphyxiated. You’re three. That level of humour really should be beyond you. In fact, I’m starting to entertain the very disturbing notion that you might be cleverer than me.
Oh, who am I kidding? I’ve known that for years now.
With a greatly injured ego,
Your Loving Mother
21 comments
Love the letters. You have to print them out, frame them and give them to your family! I bet they would love it (even if not right now).
by Mara on September 21, 2009 at 3:48 am. #
i think i agree with mara! :)
so sorry that you’re unable to be with the other 3 members of your family while you’re working to keep claira safe and sound . . . and when you’re feeling lazy . . . remember that you *are* working . . .
much love
by Kate on September 21, 2009 at 5:21 am. #
Ahhhh, so sweet. When I sit across the room from my kids and see them interacting with other people I am always amazed at how mature they are becoming.
I am glad you had a great visit with your kiddos. Hang in there.
by Kazzy on September 21, 2009 at 7:01 am. #
Sounds like Emma’s sense of humor is very close to one of my daughter’s–love the dry wit.
Here’s hoping for another 7 (VERY FAST!) weeks.
by Annette on September 21, 2009 at 7:08 am. #
I want to meet your kids.
Good weekend together?
by Becca on September 21, 2009 at 7:15 am. #
Love these letters. They are like poetry. I like the “with a knife” comment the most — by your 3 yr old? That cracks me up.
Here’s to 7 more weeks!! You can do it!!
by Terresa Wellborn on September 21, 2009 at 10:45 am. #
I really love the name Claira. Hope you’re feeling better!
by Kristina P. on September 21, 2009 at 11:02 am. #
Love letters like these. LOL to Becca! That is too funny…wow. Love her!
by Jaina on September 21, 2009 at 11:34 am. #
Very sweet letters to your family. Your husband really does deserve the husband of the year award.
by Erin on September 21, 2009 at 2:10 pm. #
I love that comment from Becca. I’m pretty sure that is something Faramir would have said, actually, and you know what a riot he is.
I love the letters and Neil definitely gets husband of the year award!
by Eowyn on September 21, 2009 at 2:30 pm. #
with a knife! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
by Melanie J on September 21, 2009 at 6:04 pm. #
oh…makes me miss you guys all so much!! I love your letters…..
Dear Kim,
please, whatever you do, don’t stop being so amazing!! I mean, seriously! I know that they say absence makes the heart grow fonder…just so ya know, who ever “they” are, they’re right!!
Love your pal,
Jenn
ps: only 1 week and I can hug you in person!!
by Jenn on September 21, 2009 at 9:09 pm. #
Dear one,
Having spent the larger part of six months communicating with our oldest son through letters, I so appreciate these sweet letters to your family. It’s amazing how much love you can pack into a note, isn’t it?
by charrette on September 21, 2009 at 11:34 pm. #
With a knife!! That’s awesome!!!
by Summer on September 22, 2009 at 4:51 am. #
Those. Are. Awesome.
And Becca is way too cute. I like her name, too! ;)
by Rebecca on September 22, 2009 at 6:43 am. #
“With a knife.” Priceless.
by Luisa Perkins on September 22, 2009 at 7:05 am. #
Hilarious post, kim. I’m totally with you on the lack of information when asking kids about their day. It kills me that mine spend the majority of their day in school and all I get is a lousy, “It was a good day.” Enough of that!
I say Neil gets the award too. And your parents! And you deserve one too, just for being the fabulous, wonderful person you are.
by L.T. Elliot on September 22, 2009 at 11:41 pm. #
Her humor is aweseome :) !!
Hang in there … only 7 more weeks to go. You can do it!
by An Ordinary Mom on September 25, 2009 at 1:02 pm. #
I’m glad that Blake isn’t the only child that can attend 6 1/2 hour school day without the abilty to remember ANYTHING they did throughout the day. What the heck! At the beginning of this school year I started making him tell me about 3 different things they did during the day on our car ride home from school…his after school snack depends on him being able to do it. IT WORKS! Some days he really has to stop and think to be able to get 3 and other days he gets into it and forgets to stop after 3, lucky me! You should try it, I feel so much better knowing a small part of what goes on during those hours of the day that he’s gone…let me know how it goes. It’s funny how fast they think when they want that after school snack! :)
by Nicole on September 26, 2009 at 5:19 pm. #
Can you imagine what a treasure these posts of yours are going to be for your girls someday?
Simply wonderful.
by Tonya on September 27, 2009 at 10:24 am. #
So lovely. So wonderful. So hope one day we all meet. x
by Jo Beaufoix on October 3, 2009 at 10:05 am. #