Last night I decided to get productive and organize all the kids' schoolwork from the past seven years. I had loose papers sitting in a filing cabinet and I couldn't have found anything specific if my life depended on it!

So I grabbed all our empty binders and other miscellaneous paper organizers, and started to work. I threw out most of their things and just kept a few things from each subject for each year. It was really a fun process, because I got to see how far they'd come, how much they'd learned, and how cute they were when they were little (they're 10 and 12 now, though they're still cute!).

One paper really made me laugh, though. Katie, when she was barely 6, wrote this:

Once there was a egell (eagle). She had a mom who had to werck all the time. Sometimes her mom came home and they all had hot chockelet. The egell's dad was home all of the time so the egell could be saef.

Sorry for the spelling mistakes, but that's what she wrote!

Anyway, the reason I thought that was so funny is that I've always been home the vast majority of the time! I do do some Christian speaking, though, and sometimes I'll have to leave for an evening or overnight. This must have been written right after one of those episodes. My husband, though, works quite long hours! But to little 6-year-old Katie, what really mattered was that Mommy should be home. It was very cute, and it just goes to show how upset she would have been if I'd gotten a "real" job! It's such a blessing to stay home with my kids.

• Post A Comment! • Send to a Friend!