Dear Mom,
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Can I pleeeeeeease get my own computer? Every time I want to use the family computer, YOU'RE always on it. You even EAT BREAKFAST in front of the computer, and pretty much after dinner - yep, you're on the computer. So, wouldn't it be cool if I had my own? Then, when I'm on the computer (and I know you've had to tell me to 'wrap it up' when it's time to eat, or when you want to use it) you don't have to wait for me to finish my writing or email or whatever. It will always be available for you!
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About clothes, too? I really do like shopping the clearance racks, but do we always have to start there? Sometimes there are things I just plain old want. I can't explain it. Hey, were YOU ever able to explain it? Ok. So maybe if the shirt I pick out is, like, $25? I promise I won't ask for anything else for a good long while, if, just this once? And I totally hate shopping for clothes. All my stuff has to be hemmed and it's so annoying. I know not *all* of my friends have an unlimited amount to spend on clothing, but all their stuff seems to fit perfect and I have to get mine altered. So cool that you know how to run a sewing machine (even if my khakis were hemmed a little *too* short! But that's ok, I'll still wear them). So cool that I know how to run a sewing machine. And have one of my own. Though, I do think YOU need a new one (so I can have your old one, which I like a lot better than mine).
Really. Do 7th graders have a bedtime? I know school is starting, but I'm not the only one who has gotten into this bad habit of staying up late and sleeping in. Mom, if you're going to make me turn my lights out at a certain time, then you need to do the same. 'Nuf said.
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You know, if I say that I feel short or fat or something, it doesn't mean I'm going to get all anorexic on you. So quit with the "When I was your age" stories already, ok? I mean, I see my family and we're all different shapes and sizes, and I know that in this mixed bag of genes that I might end up with the short end of the gene pool. I said "short," mom, not "shallow," and though I'm laughing and rolling my eyes at your joke, I'm serious, here. I know that everyone grows at different rates and times, and I might still end up being tall. Whatever. I'm happy with myself most of the time, and isn't it pretty normal to not like some things about yourself from time to time? So, let me complain about things now and then. You'll know if I'm getting all weirded out about something.
Oh. And along with my own computer, a cell phone would really be nice. I know when I use yours at practices and stuff that I leave some strange messages, but that's only because my friends are around. I can't be my usual self and say "love you, mama," because they'd think that's weird for someone my age. But you know I mean it, even if I don't say it!
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Oh. And about staying home alone? I can way more than handle a couple of hours. In fact, PLEASE GO AWAY FOR AN ENTIRE DAY! (just kidding) You surprise me all the time when I come home from school and you're not there, so you don't need to tell me 500 times that you're going out shopping FOR AN HOUR or out to visit someone. I CAN HANDLE IT! Yes, I have the phone numbers, and I know not to open the door for a stranger, or answer the phone.
And I don't think you hover (too much) and I'm not too annoyed that you help at some of the things I'm involved in. At least you stay out of the way, and some of my friends remember you from elementary school, but most people haven't figured out we're related. You're just that crazy woman who stuck a bobby-pin in some guy's head (by mistake! I know! by mistake!) because he had a chunk of hair sticking out. Plus, I kind of like it that you're there if I need to just check in.
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Ok: final things. Books, books, books, more books. Let's go to a few movies. Music (i-tunes?) would be a really great thing. I like our weekend shopping. Let's do it often, even if we don't buy anything. Winter boots? Please, no more Land's End unless it's something not little-kid. Last year's boots were pretty mortifying, mom. Yeah. I'm not going to be rolling around in the snow anymore. I just want some boots to keep my feet warm and wear DURING SCHOOL HOURS instead of having them take up space in my locker (which is totally annoying when I have to share a locker so there's no room for anything) and they have to look stylish.
All right. Gotta go.
Love,
(don't you DARE put my nicknames here, MOM!)
ME! You know who it is!
p.s. Yes, I really do know I have a good brother.
p.s.s. don't forget, NICE boots.
p.s.s.s. Stop tucking me in with all my stuffed animals when I'm asleep at night.
p.s.s.s.s. I'm TWELVE now, you don't have to check in on me!
p.s.s.s.s.s. Ok, maybe once in a while. BUT THAT'S IT!
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Love this. I could have written the same letter to my parents at 12, well except for the stuff about the computer and the cell phone.
ReplyDeleteWow, I think Emily could have written this letter just this week...weirdly similar to every 12 year old I know....
ReplyDeleteOK. I was a little thrown off here. You changed your layout, and so I was confused by hearing your daughter's voice on someone else's page! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI don't push my 7th grade son to wear boots to school anymore. If he gets his shoes wet, so be it. I will still buy them so he has no excuse when there's snow to be shoveled (and he can't fit into mine anymore). He is sticking with his 9:30 bedtime, too, although I know that might be self-adjusting.
I offered to take him to the mall to buy some new t-shirts (a la Aeropostale & American Eagle), but he said Kohl's would be fine. He's just lucky there wasn't anything on clearance that I thought was perfect for school.
I'm sure my son's letter would be similar. (You should've seen his face today when I said there was something I wanted to talk to him about, and would he prefer Dad or Mom do the talking? When I said it was about girls, he said "DAD, and now I am going to go back to pretending to study the landscape."
@Suzy-Q: Sorry! I paid attention to the Lady Blogger Society advice article about changing layout, etc. Plus, this new layout loads just as quickly as the other one! HA HA HA re: the talk about girls! And, the bedtime is also encouraging - I'll let my letter-writer know that she, too, will be having her 9:30 bedtime because your son has the same time, too! HA!
ReplyDelete@Alissa & Craig - Never let it be said that I don't listen to the kid. HA HA HA
kathy - I laughed when I read the comment about the "talk about girls." I remember Dad's "talk" from behind the Saturday morning newspaper. Still makes me laugh so hard that milk comes out my nose. (dad's very tactful and to the point ya know..)
ReplyDelete@ticketmaster - yep. Hey - at least he kept it to a minimum of words. To spare embarressment! hee
ReplyDeleteIf you would get her a cell phone, she could text you all the time about how much she loves you!
ReplyDeleteOkay, I know this is prolly not what you wanted me to take away from your daughter's letter, but I'm in awe of someone who can hem a pair of pants. I can't cut straight, and the only class I ever came close to failing in high school was the sewing semester of home ec. I was a home wreck in that class. In fact, I once tried to hem a pair of pants on my own. I ended up looking like one leg was shorter than the other because, well, one pants leg actually was.
Grace, you crack me up! She was, just this evening, making a case for a lap top.
ReplyDeletere: hemming pants - I can hem them,but I didn't say I could hem them "well." It's getting better! ha
This is SO my middle daughter years ago. And I love the comment about worrying about weight and such. Sheesh, isn't it the truth!? Every little thing a teen/pre-teen girl says makes Mama worry about what it "really" means and where it will lead our lovely one and what the damage will be at the end of the road, end of the day.
ReplyDeleteGreat letter ... especially since it was "daughter approved"!