My daughter has a little notebook with a picture of Tinkerbell on it in which she has decided to write the wisdom she has gathered in her four years of living, written in her shaky preschool printing (with a little spelling help when requested).
Some are love notes: "MY DADDY IS THE BEST"; "YOU ARE THE BEST MOMMY IN THE WORLD YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL" (awwww...).
Some reflect her religious training: "i LOVE jESUS"; "THE LORD IS A SPECIAL HEART."
Some make her sound more like the Buddha: "LOVE ALL THINGS"; "EVERYTHING IS A WORLD."
There are Oprah-esque affirmations: "YOU CAN BE WHAT EVER YOU WANT"; "YOUR BODY IS BEAUTIFL"; "THINGS cAN BE AS GOOD AS YOU tHOUGHT" (has she been reading The Secret?)
But the absolute best one is near the beginning. It says simply: "DOORK LOVE."
She read it to me while I was brushing my teeth and asked me, "Mommy, what's a dork?"
I didn't want her to use it as an insult on the playground, so I told her it was somebody who acted silly all the time.
"Like Daddy!" she confidently proclaimed. I choked on my toothpaste; she didn't understand why I was laughing.
He may be a dork, but I am certainly a dork too, so together we do have DOORK LOVE 4-EVER.
How cute! You'll have to save that for posterity. It'll be a treasure in about 20 years.
ReplyDeleteyeah dorks!
ReplyDeletei must say in regard to your last post that i would have expected one such as yourself being so highly educated to know the difference between welp and welt... i guess you just can't educate the texan out of a girl...
WELP: -dutch-(not even an english word) means a wolf pup but can be used in conjunction with a human usu. in a derogatory tone.
WELT: to be marked with or develop welts (originated from shoe making)
WELTS: A ridge or bump on the skin caused by a lash or blow or sometimes by an allergic reaction
i'm sorry, i just can't help myself... i've been working steadfastly on curing my wife's family of this inaccuracy for years. and besides, i thought you would want to know, just as i would if i were found in such an error. (but don't start on my lack of proper punctuation and capitalization... i already know!)