Friday, January 2, 2009

This is why I am still married...

I am working in my office - trying to clean it up a little bit (really, I am just putting off working on a manuscript that should have been finished three months ago).

And I see an assignment that my son did in school last year that I have taped to the door of a filing cabinet.

It has his name across the top and it titled "my dad". The text (verbatim except for my name) is:

"My dad's name is xxxx. He is not mean. He tret's me like a king I try to do the same thing. so he heps me larn and play. He love me and I love him. He is always there for me. and I'm there for him I love my dad."

I am going to put this in a safe place and pull it out when we start butting heads in his teenage years.

3 comments:

Sunny Delight said...

It sounds like your son realizes your love for him...that's a great accomplishment.

Staying married to keep the family intact for a child, or children, can be a questionable proposition. But, I did it, and from some of my own children s more recent comments regarding their childhoods, staying was better for them than leaving...at least until things really fell apart.

SixDegrees said...

Sunny - Thanks for sharing your situation. I know, in my head, that there is no one best answer to this question. I also know, in my gut, that this is what is best for him, right now.

C-Marie said...

That's really adorable.
And you're right - no one knows better than yourself.