Being a parent is hard. Children are time consuming, money consuming, food consuming, and emotionally draining. People fill novels with the trials and triumphs of parenthood. And frankly, I didn’t even like kids before we had one of our own. It was so cool, however, that we had two.
But you want to know what I love most about being a parent? Being a lion. The note here is an example of one that our youngest daughter Cozette (6) writes and leaves on her pillow every night. No matter how tired she is from the day’s events, or from her bones stretching beneath her skin, she stays up with her reading light on long enough to carve out this critical correspondence. On Hanna Montana paper. Always with one other note that says, “Please do not wake me up.”
And this, my friends, is what makes procreation worth it.
Cozette
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Nichole Brown
Dec 28, 2009
This gets added to my list of Precious Things. Jim, you and Tina are blessed. For what is better than a child’s love?
Jeanne Veillette Bowerman
Dec 28, 2009
I’ve saved many of the notes from my kids. One most treasured note is a red cut-out heart on which my girl wrote “I forgive you” in response to her brother’s apology. It prominently sits in my office, always in view. Constant reminder of what’s important — my children and forgiveness. Maybe she’ll make one for me someday after she’s grown and been in therapy for years…
Jim Mitchem
Dec 28, 2009
Money? 😉
Jim Mitchem
Dec 28, 2009
I save a lot of stuff. For me and Tina, mostly.
Fraser Valley Gourmet
Dec 28, 2009
So beautiful. Cozette is going places, for sure.
Emma
Dec 28, 2009
Um. Sorry, that Fraser Valley Gourmet is a client of mine. Apparently I was logged in to their account? Sigh.
Jim Mitchem
Dec 28, 2009
Kids are something. Then they become teenagers, I reckon. 😉
Lisa
Jan 1, 2010
Kids are amazing. Cozette is fantastic and I can totally agree with her “please don’t wake me up note”.
Never thought I would have kids of my own. Then along came Master Thomas. My life has never been better and I am thankful every day for him.
Bruce Couch
Mar 25, 2010
I am a teenage girls survivor.
My novel – Minor King
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