Friday, May 26, 2006 1:04 PM
I was looking through some papers that my younger son, Gabriel, brought home today from school, and one of those was his weekly news items that he writes. I particularly enjoyed this one from March (spelling errors corrected):
I love the weather today. I finished the brick tower behind my shed! I use it to get on top of my shed. I showed it to my dad and he said, "Take it down now!!" So I did. Sadly! Night is falling. There was a big storm!!!! There was rain (image here), thunder, and lightning(image here). Morning came, it is a little bit colder. I didn't want to get up, but I did. I went to school and I wrote this whole paper!!!
It's always touching seeing how we come across to them. How important to keep this in mind during every interaction. It almost makes me wish I had let him up on the roof more! Almost...