I have a lot of facebook, twitter and actually in-person comments about a now famous picture posted earlier this week.
Here’s the story for those of you who haven’t heard.
My precious little 7-year-old, Brendan, was forced to write thank-you notes for the birthday presents he received from his friends/family.
This was not a chore that he was excited about. But with the choices of writing thank-you notes or returning the presents, he picked the notes.
It was time to write the thank-you note to Grandma and Grandpa.
Here’s what he wrote:
Brendan's thank-you note to Grandma and Grandpa, Part 1.
Needless to say, I lost my s*(t!
I started laughing hysterically. I seriously couldn’t even speak.
At some point, my dear son looked at me and said “what’s wrong?”
Not being able to put together a sentence, I just put my hand in front of my face and continued laughing.
He said, “did I make a mistake??”
I nodded, managing to give a small yes in between laughs.
He looked at the note, and said, “Oh, I know.”
This is a look at take 2:
Brendan's thank-you note to Grandma and Grandpa, Take 2.
Yes people.
He meant to say shiRt. But thought his mistake was that he forgot the, “the.”
He got a shirt from my parents…a SHIRT!
I finally was able to speak again, telling him he wrote a bad word. He figured out what it was, and then started crying thinking he would be in trouble.
He’s my sensitive child and he quickly fixed his mistake, through the tears.
So to answer the other burning question, NO, I was unable to keep and/or frame the note.
However, I have these photos and will put that in a frame for my parents.
Jen this has kept me giggling for days now. I love your little grammar boy, finding the grammar problem with it 🙂
I’m so glad you got the pictures! One day he will laugh, too… Hahaha
Okay, now that I have stopped laughing so hard I was crying…
Thank you! I needed that laugh!
I almost choked on candy while reading this. Thanks a lot Jen!
I started cracking up in Starbucks just now. Thanks for that!
hahaha, that right there is priceless!
That’s fantastic, especially part 2. And his reaction to the mistake is priceless. Poor thing, thinking he’d be in trouble. This is priceless famile lore and one day you’ll both be able to laugh at this. In the mean time, thanks for posting so the rest of us can =D
Absolutely precious!
This is one of the really great things about parenting! You can’t make this up! I shared this with my daughter….she loved it too. Definite story to pass down. Thank you for sharing this.
I love how innocent our children are…..what a great story! Thanks for sharing 🙂
OMG, this was too funny.. Definitely put a smile on my face! The innocence of youth.. priceless!!
tho this story made us all giggle a lot, I have to say to myself, Poor little guy…He did his best in writing the thank you note to his grandparents…
Love it when that happens! Thank you for sharing!