A Mother's day message from Josh

Over the past few days, the older boys have been encouraged to think of something nice to do for Mother's day.

For Family Home Evening Dallan had the boys make me a card. Now, you must understand that expecting my boys to create something with hearts and rainbows is their idea of torture.

Josh started a card with me being roasted on a grill.

When he was instructed to start over, he started a card that had a heart shooting asteroids at me. I guess making the "love" part too obvious is too embarrassing.
On Friday Josh came home from school with a Mother's day card that began with the prompt: If I could give you any present, I'd give you...
this is what he wrote:

To no one in particular,
(if it's not addressed to me, it's sort of like taking the 5th amendment right?)
If I could give you any present
I'd give you 20 bucks if I were feeling generous
cause I wouldn't want to waste my money on you!
I will just spend it on junk like candy and game cube games.
That is all.
Too bad,
I bet you could really use 20 bucks.
From,
Josh

The thing is, Josh was excited to show it to me!
He assumed I would think it was hilarious and extremely clever!
What a compliment! I decided to let him be right about that assumption!
You might think I'm disappointed with the lack of
lovey dovey-ness around here.
I'm not-
because today, Josh sat on my lap so I could hug him while we listened to some music.

I told him he could go play whenever he was ready,

and you know what?

He stayed,

for 3 more songs.

I got the message.

Dear Josh,
If I could give you any present,
I'd probably give you a wash cloth because I love you so much that I could blow up into a million pieces and my guts would probably glop all over you and you'll need a rag to wipe them off. (he'll like that)
Love,
Mom