Tuesday, February 24, 2009

::pack your bags for a guilt trip::

One morning on Maui, David and I had early-morning plans for a boat trip out to the crater of Molokini to go snorkeling. We awoke, dressed, and quietly slipped out of the house by 6:00 so as not to wake anyone, including Anna.

I did, however, leave her a note:





Good mommy, right?

Wrong.

When we returned, every one had already left for the beach. We went to change clothes to go and meet them, and I found this on our bed:

In case you can't decipher her writing, it says:

"Hi. Never leave like that again ok, get it, got it, good. I woke up at 6:46 and was (sad) until 7:20 almost. I put my sunscreen on. Well, I will if we go to the beach. Next time you're not doing that again. Say GOOD BYE. "

I love how she apparently watched the clock to time her misery. Her drawings show the sun and a bottle of sun-screen squirting out on her arm.

And then there's me over there, snorkeling, blissfully having forgotten AAAALLLLL about my child.

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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2009 at 12:39 PM

    Oh. My. GAWD.

    I love how she tells you she put on sunscreen, then tells you she didn't yet, but she WILL.

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  2. DeeFebruary 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM

    I have never known a kid who wrote notes to chastise a parent! She doesn't hesitate to take you to task over a slight. In fact most kids don't even discuss problems-----they just pout. You may regret that she ever learned to A: discuss things and B: WRITE.

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  3. kateFebruary 24, 2009 at 2:24 PM

    Mom, I figure if she does become a writer, she can support David and I when we're old; she certainly has a flair for drama!

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  4. Fancy SchmancyFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:52 PM

    OOOOO, my son used to write me notes like that, too. I'd wake up to them in the morning. Now he's a teenager, he just ignores me instead!

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  5. DeeFebruary 25, 2009 at 8:50 PM

    I like your latest pic of you and Anna, tho we can't see much of her. Cute hat !

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2009 at 2:15 PM

    LOVE THAT. She's such a smart, sensitive and creative kid.

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  7. HFebruary 26, 2009 at 9:11 PM

    Well, think about it! If you were 8 and flew all the way to Maui and you woke up just a FEW minutes late to find your mom having the funnest time snorkling... wouldn't YOU write her a nastygram??? BAD MOMMY!! (love it!) :)

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  8. kateFebruary 27, 2009 at 8:21 AM

    Heather, she knew we were going!!
    We'd discussed it the day before. She was just mad that I didn't wake her up....but, I've learned a thing or two in the past 8 years and one of them is: "Wake not the sleeping monster for she will then breath fire and wail with the force of a thousand hurricanes"...and then we would have been late. :)

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  9. Home Renovation TustinNovember 25, 2022 at 1:56 PM

    Hi thaanks for sharing this

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