April 16, 2012

The favret prsin

This week I got an email from Eliza.  Apparently, Sage taught her how to log in to the email account Mark set up for her when she was born.  I mean borin. (see below)  It's clear she was instructed on the use of emoticons, as well.  Here's the email she sent me.  I can only imagine how long it took her to write and type it.

hlow mom i loved you evin win  i was borin. you are varey nis i love you.you are  my favret prsin in the hol wrd.eliza               
 

Seriously, how did I get to be so lucky?

The sweetness of notes and moments like these help me rise above the drudgery of certain duties of motherhood like multiple nighttime feedings, unyielding excess baby weight, and hours a day spent chauffeuring.

How can I not love the job that makes me the recipient of my kindergartener's first sent email, the object of my baby's adoring smiles, the recipient of my three year old's urgent news about finding a worm? 

I'm willing to pay the price in time, sleep, and the sacrificing of my own interests to own a fighting chance of being my kids' favret prsin.

9 comments:

Emily said...

bless the adorable children we mother and they're wonderfully misspelled/phonetically spelled efforts to tell us they love us. you are raising sweet children to be sure, too bad i'm too far away to really know them. but I know you and that counts for something!

Emily said...

their, not they're :0)

Linda said...

That Eliza is definitely a keeper! So sweet.

Celeste said...

That is so sweet! You are my "favret prsin", too!

Heather said...

Best Email EVER! Maybe that email account was a good idea after all.

Danielle said...

That is so sweet and true. I wondered who could have instructed her so expertly on the use of emoticons.

Kimberly said...

Too cute! I love her spelling!

krista said...

she is so sweet. i knew the real Eliza would shine through her somewhat mischievious nature. we need to come see you guys and get reacquainted. motherhood is definitely worth it!

Frazier Family said...

I haven't checked blogs FOREVER and I can't believe how big Christian is! He's SO CUTE! And that email? So precious. Max wrote me on of those once, but then I looked in his outbox and he had written the exact same email to about 10 other people :)