The kids all got their black belts in TKD a
couple of weeks ago, and what do I find
in the mailbox today if it isn't their
"thank you" notes that they apparently
wrote as part of that whole experience.
(Side note: they put them in the mail
without any stamps. So the USPS happily
returned them to the sender address - the
kids' - which obviously happened to be
the same as the actual destination. Either
there's somebody at the USPS that goes
"Aww, how cute, more clueless children
in action", or I can see a gaping hole in
the USPS business plan)
And I'm starting to see a pattern about
this whole "thank you" business. I blogged
about a similar event last year ("Parenting
gold star (?)") where Celeste - under
similar forced circumstances - was
thanking us for being such great parents
and not flushing their dead pets down the
toilet.
This time around, she apparently had an
even harder time to figure out what to
thank us for. Because this is what she
says: "Thank you for caring enough to
feed me". Yes, there's more, but that's the
opening line. Wow. We're really top-notch
parents. Because we care just enough to
feed our kids!
Apparently childhood in the Torvalds
family is a tough affair. There's this
constant nagging worry about the parents
caring enough that the kids are being fed.
Only to be occasionally overshadowed by
the terror of dead pets being flushed.
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