Catie in Indianapolis was over at the house of her boyfriend’s family’s house when she spied this adorable-looking note on the fridge. Upon further investigation, she learned it was written by her boyfriend’s 7-year-old niece as a gift to her grandparents. Adds Catie: “I saw these girls in action over the weekend, and I think the fourth line actually overstates her feelings for her sisters.”
![I love [Grandma] I love Mommy. I love Daddy. I like my sisters. I love [Grandpa].](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4073/4765848018_75f16edcd8.jpg "I love [Grandma] I love Mommy. I love Daddy. I like my sisters. I love [Grandpa].")
I only hope the kid’s family holds on to her note until she’s old enough to be embarrassed/amused by her young self. As it happens, Sarah in Waco, Texas recently had the opportunity to do just that.
While cleaning out boxes after her grandmother passed away, she stumbled upon a thank you note she had written to her grandparents years earlier. (“In my defense,” Sarah says, “my brother never did write his own thank you note.”)
![Dear Gramp and Gran, Thank you for the $20 (twonty) [sic] dollars you have me and Scotty. I don't know when Scott is making a Thank you note. Lots of Love, Sarah Lake (Wally's dauter [sic])](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4481800878_21a632ac02.jpg "Dear Gramp and Gran, Thank you for the $20 (twonty) [sic] dollars you have me and Scotty. I don't know when Scott is making a Thank you note. Lots of Love, Sarah Lake (Wally's dauter [sic])")
related: Dear Mommy, I love you…sometimes.
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#1
cunning linguist
maybe that second kid is trying to make a statement–if Gramp and Gran need clarification of whose dater this is, they can’t really be all that close.
Jul 8, 2010 at 6:18 pm rating: 90
#2
Wordyone
I love that she felt the need to tell her grandparents how she was related to them.
Jul 8, 2010 at 6:20 pm rating: 90
#3
CGP
does that read “Lots of love Sarah Lake (Wally’s daughter)”?
i’m sure Gran and Gramp would have figured out who it was from
edit: damn my slow typing… i look like i was copying now
Jul 8, 2010 at 6:20 pm rating: 90
#4
infant tyrone
Over there, you know, over at the house of her boyfriend’s family’s house, it looks as if the nieces may have the luxury of two Gradmas (maybe they distinguish one from another by the position of the rotated “p” and “d”?).
So, can we all get down to just getting along now, and forget the kerfuffle we’ve been in about Heather and her two mommies. ‘Phobes, y’all lost.
Jul 8, 2010 at 6:21 pm rating: 90
#5
The Great Joe Bivins
A Grapma is indeed a horrible creature. The Grapma stands ten feet tall and has rows and rows of slavering fangs and a mullet. If cornered by a Grapma the best thing to do is flap your arms over your head and cluck like a chicken, as the only natural predator of the Grapma is the North American Arm-Flapping Clucking Man-Ape.
Jul 8, 2010 at 6:42 pm rating: 90
#6
shwonline
She was trying to write “I love Grappa,” although I’m pretty sure she shouldn’t be drinking that. Unless Grapma gives it to her.
Jul 8, 2010 at 7:06 pm rating: 90
#7
Silence
Stupid Scotty. No thank you note yet, and I’d bet you dollars to donuts that he’ll still get $20 next year, too!! While Sarah, that angelic dater of Wally’s, will get NO recognition for her selfless and kind note…just another $20, same as everyone else.
HEARTLESS!
Jul 8, 2010 at 9:15 pm rating: 90
#8
Silence
And to be fair, who among us can say ever really felt anything more than “like” for our siblings? In my household, the emotional spectrum between my brothers and me generally hovered between neutrality and outright loathing.
Christmas was always a hoot, though, what with the hair-pulling, screaming and toy-breaking. Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la…
Jul 8, 2010 at 9:18 pm rating: 90
#9
mamason
“Catie in Indianapolis was over at the house of her boyfriend’s family’s house”…
Jul 8, 2010 at 10:59 pm rating: 90
#10
mamason
Gradma was awesome. She went to Harvard.
Jul 8, 2010 at 11:01 pm rating: 90
#11
JetJackson
PEMCO Note paper – “When you care enough to send the very best.”
Jul 8, 2010 at 11:39 pm rating: 90
#12
Froget Menot
These are twonty reasons to zeppelin’ your brother..
Jul 9, 2010 at 7:07 am rating: 90
#13
pylgrim
Is the second note written by the kid of a couple of accountants? I cannot imagine what other kind of kid would think of stating the amount of monies acknowlegded in letters in a parentheses following the number at the tender age where belittling your sibling on a thank you note seems like a good idea. The fact that it looks like a shrewd tactic to ensure and possibly improve that amount in the next relevant payable date at the cost of smudging the competition’s reputation just confirms my theory.
Jul 9, 2010 at 8:08 am rating: 90
#14
Canthz_B
This reminds me of the terrible feeling that I may miss someone when saying my bedtime prayers as a child.
Also of the moment I realized I could stay up just that much longer if I could think of more and more people to ask God to bless!
I still wonder if I ever helped that gas station attendant.
Jul 9, 2010 at 8:50 am rating: 90
#15
Mo®
Twonty ($20), twonty ($20)?! Why in my day we got fiv ($5), a syrupy card and guilt, and we liked it!
Kids these days, LUXURY!
Jul 9, 2010 at 2:15 pm rating: 90
#16
RP
Bash me for being off topic but please, someone take a screenshot of this so it can be submitted to the site. The Cleveland Cavaliers’ team owner has concluded that Lebron James has betrayed his hometown and state and has therefore cursed the team he’s on now: http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/news/gilbert_letter_100708.html
It has some classic PAN elements but my favorite is the fact that he almost never uses LeBron’s name.
Jul 9, 2010 at 2:28 pm rating: 90
#17
Odious
wait…her boyfriend’s family’s house has its own house?
Jul 9, 2010 at 4:55 pm rating: 90
#18
Cory
My family once bought a YMCA family pass for our pastor’s family. Soon after we received multiple thank you cards (handmade), and the youngest’s was similar to the first letter. It said something like “I like my mom. I like my neighbor. I love you.” He didn’t even mention his father, and apparently children respond well to bribery.
Jul 9, 2010 at 7:18 pm rating: 90
#19
aaa
I’m always glad to see children learning successful life skills so early on in life.
Jul 10, 2010 at 10:32 am rating: 90
#20
Froget Menot
All write no pay makes Sarah a dull girl ?
All play no write makes Scotty a mere boy ?
Jul 10, 2010 at 11:36 am rating: 90
#21
Marge
This note is great – very authentic! I think most of us probably wrote a note or 2 like this as kids – but maybe not quite as nice!
Jul 12, 2010 at 1:55 pm rating: 90
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Jul 26, 2010 at 8:40 pm rating: 90
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