Just a few reasons…

I love my kids. If I’m worried or stressed in the morning, Camille sends me off with lots of kisses "to take you to work and help you." When I picked her up today, she asked me how my day was. It wasn’t good. In fact, it was lousy.

"It was a tough day, Camille," I said.

"And did my kisses take you work and make it OK?"

"Honey," I said. "I wouldn’t have made it through the day without them." And it’s the truth.

Abby brought home some school work that absolutely delighted me. Their class assignment was to write a story that solves the mystery about why socks get lost in the wash. Here’s what she wrote (with the original spelling included):

Today I was watching through the washer window. Suddenly I saw some green thing. They were eating my socks. I opened the door to the washer and grabbed them and poured them in a jar and shwed them to my mom and dad. They sad to keep them so they wouldn’t eat our socks. After that I put them in a pot and put water in the jar and poured them in the jar. Then I put the jar in the freezer. I kept them in their for 3 months. I took them out of the freezer they wear frozen. Me and my parents were happy and tats how we solved the sock mystery.

There are illustrations, too!

Now I ask you: who could still be depressed after that?

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3 Comments

  1. Rita McKay
    Posted 5/31/2006 at 6:28 am | Permalink

    Oh, Susan! What sweeties! Love this stuff!

  2. Merita Tillman
    Posted 5/31/2006 at 9:21 am | Permalink

    Can Abby come over and capture my sock eaters? I’ve kept stray socks for years hoping the other one would turn up. Guess I can just throw them away since the mates are in the belly of some green thing! Ha,Ha

  3. Aja
    Posted 5/31/2006 at 4:10 pm | Permalink

    hahaha…I love it!! A green thing that is eating the socks, best explaination I have heard yet. What I great assignment!!!

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